“Oh! we’re not,” interrupted one of the peasants. “We know you, Monsieur de Montrevel.”
“Yes,” answered the other, “we know that, like your father, you’re not in the habit of making people work for nothing. Oh! if all the aristocrats had been like you, Monsieur Louis, there wouldn’t have been any revolution.”
“Of course not,” said the other, who seemed to have come solely to echo affirmatively what his companion said.
“It remains to be seen now where the animal is,” said the first peasant.
“Yes,” repeated the second, “remains to be seen where it is.”
“Oh! it won’t be hard to find.”
“So much the better,” interjected the peasant.
“Do you know the pavilion in the forest?”
“Which one?”
“Yes, which one?”