"No, sir, he said he hadn't time."
"Very well."
"M. Charles Robert will also come in the course of the day to speak to the governor; it appears he fought a duel yesterday with the Duke of Lucenay."
"Is he wounded?"
"I believe not, or they would have told me of it at his house."
"Look! here is a carriage stopping."
"Oh! the fine horses, are they not mettlesome."
"And the fat English coachman, with his white wig and brown livery, with silver lace and epaulets like a colonel!"
"An embassador, surely."
"And the chasseur, has not he enough silver lace?"