"The most fashionable resort isn't always the most amusing."
"You don't see the latest styles there."
"Oh, well! if you go into the country to see the styles, you would do better never to go anywhere but the Opéra."
"But the strongest reason, and the one that finally decided my aunt, is that there isn't any railroad to Romainville."
"Surely that must be a great deprivation to a person who, when she is once settled in her country-house, never goes to Paris at all."
"And so my aunt bought a house in the opposite direction—at Passy."
"Passy and Romainville are not exactly side by side, that is true; and they are not much alike, either."
"Oh! they're entirely different!—Aristoloche, do keep still!—Passy's a fashionable, convenient place to live in; you can't go out of the house unless you're dressed up."
"That must be very pleasant when one's in the country."
"The houses all have polished floors from top to bottom. The one my aunt bought—don't jump about so, Narcisse!—the one my aunt bought is smaller than her house at Romainville; but it cost a lot more. There's no fruit in the garden, but it's ever so much smaller."