The house of office-superintendent (n.) overseer

Several bourgeois (adj.) families middle-class

Everybody sang her praises.

An economy so adroit (adj.) clever

Consent (v.) to see her home afterwards accept

Finally she yielded (v.) give way

Her toilette (n.) remained simple The act of dressing and preparing yourself

This love of tinsel (n.) and show A showy decoration that is basically valueless

My little whim (n.) impulse

The facets (n.) of the cut crystals flash in the light aspect

In their contemplation (n.) thoughtfulness

Died of pneumonia (n.) Respiratory disease 

Time did not assuage (v.) his grief. pacify

Amply (adv.) sufficed for all household needs richly

With his scanty (adj.) means bare

The heap of trinkets (n.) Cheap showy jewellery or ornament on clothing

Obstinately (adv.) buying them stubbornly

The following the boulevards (n.) avenue

Slept a leaden (adj.) sleep weighted

Strollers (n.) were walking aimlessly about Someone who walks at a leisurely pace

Made one brusque (adj.) resolve snippy

Impassive (adj.), flushed and serious unemotional

Diamond earrings, bracelets, brooches (n.), rings and medallions (n.), emeralds and sapphires, solitaire (n.), suspended to a gold neckchain breastpin, medals, A gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself

A man who seemed to him quite genteel (adj.) civilized

The itching desire to tell him.

Air of coquetry (n.) flirting

Passed the night in revelry (n.) and debauch (n.)  Unrestrained merrymaking, corrupt

The most upright of spouses (n.) mate

She made his life very miserable.