"Be off with you, and the quicker the better! I never heard such a thing—Fancy coming to talk such treason to me!"
"Au revoir, cousin!"
"I your cousin? It is a lie; I'd rather be cousin to the devil! Féresse! Féresse!"
Féresse appeared.
"Do you see this gentleman?" M. Deviolaine said, pointing at me with his finger.
"Yes," replied the astonished Féresse.
"Well, when he presents himself at my office, you can tell him I am not at home."
"I don't care a —— for Féresse! I shall enter without his leave!"
"You would enter without asking him?"