"Doctor," said the abbé, earnestly, "in the name of Heaven, do explain this blunder."
"There is no blunder at all, my dear abbé."
"What?"
"The canon speaks the truth," replied Doctor Gasterini. "Day before yesterday I had the pleasure of preparing a dish for him; for, in order to have the honour of calling yourself a glutton, you must have a practical acquaintance with the culinary art."
CHAPTER XI.
The abbé, amazed, looked at Doctor Gasterini, unable to believe what he had heard; at last he said:
"What! you, doctor, have cooked dishes for Dom Diégo? You! you?"
"Yes, I, my dear abbé."
"A doctor," exclaimed the canon, in his turn amazed, "a physician?"
"Yes, canon," replied Doctor Gasterini, "I am a physician, which does not prevent my being a passable cook."