"In your calling as a doctor, my dear friend, I would invite you to give your whole attention to the old Ministry, for it seems to me deuced ill!"
Two young people passed us by rapidly at this moment.
"A tricoloured flag?" said one. "Surely it is not possible!"
"I tell you I saw it myself," the other replied.
"Where?"
"On the quai de l'École."
"When?"
"Half an hour ago."
"What did they do to the man who was bearing it?"
"Nothing ... they just let him pass."