être aux petits soins, to be most attentive

3. la bouche en cœur, with your heart on your lips, affecting sweet manners.

Page 67. — i. diaphanéité = " transparency of the skin."

2. ma grâce ossianesque, gracefulness, such as found in the women of Ossian's poetry.

3. bal d'Almacks, subscription balls in the second half of the X VlIIth century given by the aristocratie society of London. They took place at the beginning of the season, the name coming from Almack, who first arranged them.