The registrar made one bound.
"Do you ask for my head, Citizen?" said he.
"No; I ask you for a pass, that is all."
"I shall have you arrested, unhappy man!" said he, summoning all his energy.
"Do," said Dixmer; "and the next moment I will denounce you as an accomplice, and instead of leaving me to go alone to the famous hall, you shall accompany me."
The registrar turned ghastly pale.
"Villain!" said he.
"There is no villany in that," said Dixmer; "I wish to speak to my wife, and all I require of you is a pass to enable me to do so."
"Is it then so imperative that you should speak to her?"
"It seems so, since I risk my head to do so."