at Grandet, "I need nothing; I am not even tired."

"Monsieur has come from the capital?" asked Madame des Grassins.

Monsieur Charles,--such was the name of the son of Monsieur Grandet of

Paris,--hearing himself addressed, took a little eye-glass, suspended

by a chain from his neck, applied it to his right eye to examine what

was on the table, and also the persons sitting round it. He ogled

Madame des Grassins with much impertinence, and said to her, after he

"Yes, madame. You are playing at loto, aunt," he added. "Do not let me