“M. Louis-Marie Saint-Péray?”
“Well?”
“Have you come across such a gentleman here?”
Trix nodded.
“Eh! you have?” said the other. “Well, what do you know of him?”
“That he is a young gentleman of France, of slender means, which he expends largely on impracticable enthusiasms.”
“Anything more?”
“That he is in Le Prieuré for the second time, to attempt the assault of Mont Blanc.”
“Ay, and what else?”
“Incidentally, that he will never conquer anything.”