with faith in her BEAUTY, the whole FEMININE SOUL expanded within her. she conceived a h o r r o r for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. her father had never refused her anything. she at once acquired the whole science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the stuff which is in fashion, the COLOR which is becoming, that SCIENCE which makes of the PARISIAN woman something so CHARMING, so d e e p and SO DANGEROUS. the words heady woman were invented for the Parisienne. in less than a month, LITTLE COSETTE, in that thebaid of the rue de babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the  "best dressed" women in PARIS, which means a great deal more.