"Perhaps 10 or 12 francs, I am not sure exactly how much."
"Will you be so good as to buy it for me and have it sent in as soon as you leave me?"
"Nothing could be simpler."
"Do you know any other books on this period?"
"There is Chateaubriand's Études historiques and the original sources of information."
"Who are these?"
"The authors of the Decline, Jornandès, Zozimus, Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours."
"Have you read all those authors?"
"Yes, partly."
"Did the Abbé Gauthier not read them?"