faisant de la tapisserie^ ‘occupied with needle-work

2. monsieur Chameroy, comme tu, etc. Notice tliat Madame Chameroy addresses her husband “ monsieur Chameroy/’ which is not comme il faut, and that she continues with tu, which, coupled with monsieur Chameroy, is decidedly vulgar.

4. à vous autres femmes, ‘for you women.* Autres seems pleonastic, but marks the contrast. So too, e.g., nous autres Anglais, ‘ we English * (who are different from you foreigners).