hotel.  Or something in a courtyard, with a view into a garden, or, if there be no garden, into a large court-yard; nota bene, very few lodgers—­elegant—­not higher than the second story.  Perhaps some corps de logis, but small, or something like Perthuis’s house, or even smaller.  Lastly, should it be in front, the street must not be noisy.  In one word, something you judge would be good for her.  If it could be near me, so much the better; but if it cannot be, this consideration need not prevent you.

It seems to me that a little hotel in the new streets—­such as Clichy, Blanche, or Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as far as Rue des Martyrs—­would be most suitable.  Moreover, I send you a list of the streets where Mr. Mardelle—­the portier of the Hotel Narbonne, Rue de la Harpe, No. 89, which belongs to George—­ will look for a house.  If in your leisure time you also looked out for something in our part of the town, it would be very nice.  Fancy, I don’t know why, but we think that you will find something wonderfully good, although it is already late.

The price she wishes to pay is from 2,000 to 2,500 francs, you might also give a couple of hundred francs more if anything extra fine should turn up.  Grzymala and Arago promised to look out for something, but in spite of Grzymala’s efforts nothing acceptable has thus far been found.  I have written to him that he should employ you also in this business of mine (I say of mine, for it is just the same as if it were mine).  I shall write to him again to-day and tell him that I have asked you to give your help and use all your talents.  It is necessary that there should be three bedrooms, two of which must be beside each other and one separated, for instance, by the drawing-room.  Adjoining the third there will be required a well-lighted cabinet for her study.  The other two may be small, this one, the third, also not very large.  Besides this a drawing-room and dining-room in proportion.  A pretty large kitchen.  Two rooms for the servants, and a coal-cellar.  The rooms must of course have inlaid floors, be newly laid, if possible, and require no repairs.  But a little hotel or a separate part of a house in a court-yard looking into a garden would be most desirable.  There must be tranquillity, quietness, no blacksmith in the neighbourhood.  Respectable stairs.  The windows exposed to the sun, absolutely to the south.  Further, there must be no smoke, no bad odour, but a fine view, a garden, or at least a large court.  A garden would be best.  In the Faubourg St. Germain are many gardens, also in the Faubourg St. Honore.  Find something quickly, something splendid, and near me.  As soon as you have any chance, write immediately, don’t be lazy; or get hold of Grzymala, go and see, both of you, take et que cela finisse.  I send you a plan of the arrangement of the apartments.  If you find something like this, draw the plan, or take it at once, which will be better than letting