"Well! there is one thing you have no idea of."
"What is that?" I asked.
"That I have come here almost on your account."
"How so?"
"You do not recognise me under my name of Beudin?"
"I confess I do not."
"But you may, perhaps, recognise me under that of Dinaux?"
"What! Victor Ducange's collaborator!"
"Exactly."
"The same who wrote Trente ans ou la vie d'un Joueur with him?"