"As good-looking as which cousin?"
"As Blaye."
"Again. Oh, well! you will insist on this beauty of Jean's."
"Well, beauty is perhaps not just the word; but he is charming; if you will allow me to say that?"
"I will allow it."
"By the bye, do tell me who that very nice-looking young man is whom I met just now at the end of the avenue?"
"I do not know, unless it were Pierrot's tutor; but he is not so very nice-looking——"
"Look, there he is," said M. de Clagny, indicating M. Giraud.
"Ah!" exclaimed Bijou, in astonishment; "yes, that is he!"
She was amazed both at the count's admiration, and at the transformation which Jean's dress-coat had made.