"Madame," said Nanon, who had put on her black coif and taken her

basket, "I want only three francs. You keep the rest; it'll go fast

"Have a good dinner, Nanon; my cousin will come down," said Eugenie.

"Something very extraordinary is going on, I am certain of it," said

Madame Grandet. "This is only the third time since our marriage that

your father has given a dinner."

About four o'clock, just as Eugenie and her mother had finished

setting the table for six persons, and after the master of the house