"By Jove!" Charras exclaimed to Charles Ledru, "he might have invited us to dinner with him. I am simply starving!"
"Well," said Ledru, "let us go and dine at Véfour's."
"You are most beguiling! But I haven't a sou.... Have you any money at all?"
"I have fifteen francs."
"Oh! then Vive la Charte!"
They went along joyfully together to dine at Véfour's with their arms round one another.
General Pajol, the commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Army of the West, returned merrily to Paris in a coach which he had picked up at Cognières. Before his departure, the cash-box of the Expeditionary Army had been opened and M. Armand Cassan, the improvised cashier, had paid out to the uttermost farthing for corn that had been cut down, fowls plucked, eggs taken from nests, fruit gathered and wine drunk.
A hundred to one, the peasantry round Cognières did not make a bad thing out of the expedition to Rambouillet.