Bonzig was to dispose of the rest of his time as he liked, except that he was commissioned to paint six “marines” for the baronial dining-room; and the Baron had most considerately given him four hundred francs in advance!
“So, then, to-morrow afternoon at six, my dear Josselin, you dine with me, for once—not in the Passage Choiseul this time, good as it is there! But at Babet’s, en plein Palais Royal! un jour de séparation, vous comprenez! the dinner will be good, I promise you: a calf’s head à la vinaigrette—they are famous for that, at Babet’s—and for their Pauillac and their St.-Estèphe; at least, I’m told so! nous en ferons l’expérience.... And now I bid you good-night, as I have to be up before the day—so many things to buy and settle and arrange—first of all to procure myself a ‘ma
