XIII.
The next day we all met as usual in the smoking-room.
“Well,” someone asked me, “what are you going to talk about to-night?”
“Why,” I answered, “my subject is exhausted, I have told you all I know, or at any rate all that I think worth knowing.”
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Lafaugère, Traité sur les Armes.
[2] Académie de l’Espée, by Gerard Thibault, Antwerp, 1628.