Zephine and Dahlia had their hair dressed in rolls.
Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau.
Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite''s single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux''s manufacture, on his arm on Sundays.
Tholomyes followed, dominating the group.
He was very gay, but one felt the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth.Nothing was sacred to him; he smoked.