"That's a little long," said Marcel; "but then the plant is so tall!"
"Julia-Antonia Thierrii it is," replied the professors artlessly.
"Ah! at last! bravo! so it's decided!" cried the Baronne d'Ancourt, pointing to Julie, and making the sign indicating union with her plump white hands.
Every eye was turned upon Julie, who blushed, and thereby recovered all the splendor of her beauty.
"Excuse me, madame la baronne," said Uncle Antoine, with a sly expression. "I tricked you by going to your house to beg you to make an offer of marriage to Madame d'Estrelle in my behalf. I wanted to see what you would say, and you didn't say no; on the contrary, you advised that young lady to accept me. That was what led me to propose to her the man I had in view for her, for I said to myself: 'If an old
