CHAPTER X

A. I. It was a pleasure to put on for the first time a dress such as she had never had. 2. That dress is more becoming to y ou than your cousin's would be. 3. S orne one who is a good judge told me so. 4. Although there is no real re^ semblance between them, he remînds me of my uncle. 5. Why don't you shake hands with him? 6. Conventionalities sometimes repress our impulses. 7. I did not attach much importance to this little disappointment. 8. I was mimicking one of pur guests. 9. His constrained voice made me start. 10. Let us take leave. 11. Let us not get on that subject. 12. The priest wrote me a long letter filled with good advice.

B. She was running to look at herself in ail the mirrors and she came near tripping up her uncle in the corridor. When the Commandant came he said that he had heard speak of her and called her a pretty little wild flower. However, when she had said to Paul that he was charming, although the Commandant began to laugh, she had the painf ul sensation of having said something foolish, for Blanche raised her eyebrows. When the guests had taken their leUve, her cousin called her ill-bred, and her uncle told her that in society one must conceal what one thinks, half the time.