"You will have quite enough to do with Cahors, and we shall see how you will get out of it."
"Ah! yes, the moment is critical and very disagreeable. Ah! I am not brave, and my nature revolts at every cannonade. Chicot, my friend, do not laugh too much at the poor Béarnais, your compatriot and friend. If I am afraid and you find it out, tell no one."
"If you are afraid?"
"Yes."
"Are you, then, afraid of being afraid?"
"I am."
"But then, ventre de biche, why the devil do you undertake such a thing?"
"I must."
"M. de Vezin is a terrible person."
"I know it well."