"You will have an easy time of it."
"In what does the service that the jailer has it in his power to render me consist, I beg to know?"
"He can give you oil to drink."
"Is oil a specific?"
"Of sovereign efficacy."
"Do you think so?"
"I speak from experience. I have drunk (bu)—"
"You have drunk?"
"Pardon me; I meant to say, I have seen (vu). The habit of talking with Gascons makes me pronounce v like b sometimes, and vice versa."
"You were saying," said Canolles, unable to repress a smile, notwithstanding the gravity of the conversation,—"you were saying that you had seen—?"