"It must make you laugh."
"Not very much."
"Then why do you read it?"
"Because I want to get exact details about the early centuries of our history."
"And you are looking for them in the Abbé Gauthier?"
"As you see."
"Ah! You are funny! Did you get your details for Henri III. from this?—
"'Henri-Trois, de Bologne, en France est ramené,
Redoute les ligueurs, et meurt assassiné!'"
"No, from l'Estoile, Brantôme, d'Aubigné, and the Confession de Sancy; but I did not know there was anything like that about Mérovée or Clovis."
"In the first place, they are not called Mérovée and Clovis now."