The Pope was not Catholic enough to suit some people,
but, for her part, she had generally found people better than they
were called.
A rather loud but well-bred exclamation of Madame de Grandmaison
roused Amelie from her day-dream.
"Not going to the Intendant's ball at the Palace, my Lady de Tilly!
neither you nor Mademoiselle de Repentigny, whom we are so sorry not
to have seen to-day? Why, it is to be the most magnificent affair
ever got up in New France. All Quebec has rung with nothing else
for a fortnight, and every milliner and modiste in the city has gone
almost insane over the superlative costumes to be worn there."
"And it is to be the most select in its character," chimed in Madame
Couillard; "all gentry and noblesse, not one of the bourgeois to be
invited. That class, especially the female portion of them, give
themselves such airs nowadays! As if their money made them company
for people of quality! They must be kept down, I say, or--"
"And the Royal Intendant quite agrees with the general sentiment of
the higher circles," responded Madame de Grandmaison.
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