"He is a madcap!"
"Oh! yes, so young, and so wicked, Francois!"
"Tortillard is much younger; and he would be quite as bad, if he had the strength."
"Oh! yes, he is very bad. The other day he struck me because I would not play with him."
"He struck you? good—the next time he comes—"
"No, no, Francois, it was only in fun."
"You are sure?"
"Yes, very sure."
"Very well—or—but I do not know where he gets so much money from; when he came here with La Chouette, he showed us some gold pieces of twenty francs."
"How impudent he looked when he told us, 'You could have just the same, if you were not little duffers.'"