"Being as free as air—"
"All the boxes are full, except the stage-box opposite to that in which
Mdlle. de Cardoville is seated. Happy the occupiers of that box!"
"Did you see the English ambassador's lady in the dress circle?"
"And the Princess d'Alvimar—what an enormous bouquet!"
"I should like to know the name—of that nosegay."
"Oh!—it's Germigny."
"How flattering for the lions and tigers, to attract so fashionable an audience."
"Do you notice, gentlemen, how all the women are eye-glassing Mdlle. de
Cardoville?"
"She makes a sensation."
"She is right to show herself; they gave her out as mad."