And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly heiress in the same way.

All this might, he thought, turn out very well and amusingly.

" And why not marry her if she really has so much money? That never does any harm," thought Anatole.

He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his father's room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to him.