Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his
monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated.
Fortunately, his
monitress, though by no means of the purest water, knew better than to suffer her eleve to commit so gross a blunder, and I escaped the calamity of making my first appearance at court under the auspices of such a patron.
"That I will, Adele;" and I hastened away with her, glad to quit my gloomy
monitress. The carriage was ready: they were bringing it round to the front, and my master was the pavement, Pilot following him backwards and forwards.