"That is true; you have won; but I had more chances to be a second comer than to be medaled; but what have you done?"
"On the American lay."
"Ah! good, always the same fashion!"
"Always; I go my own nice little road. This trick is common; but yokels are also common; and if it had not been for the ignorance of my bonnet, I should not be here."
"Never mind, the lesson will be of service."
"When I begin again, I will take my precautions; I have my plan."
"Ah, here is Cardillac," said the Cripple, seeing a man approach, miserably dressed, with a low, cunning, and wicked expression, which partook of the fox and the wolf "Good-day, old man."
"Come, come, limpy," answered Cardillac, gayly; "they said every day, 'He will come.' You do like the pretty women one must wish for."
"Yes, yes."
"Oh!" continued Cardillac, "is it for something a little uppish that you are here?"