“You will be my accomplice, then, against the Colonel?”
“Against my grandfather?”
“Yes. He has written some memoirs.”
“I know that. It is I who write from his dictation.”
“Ah! they are worth reading.”
“Oh, grandpapa, Monsieur Dumas says that your memoirs are worth reading!”
“If he wishes to read them, I shall not hinder him,” said the Colonel.
“Will you really permit me, sir?”
“If I refused you, I should be attaching too much importance to them.”
“Colonel, I am like the gamin of Paris of Monsieur Vanderburch—I should like to embrace you.”