"I did, but the steward insisted on paying. Here is the money. Oh! I had almost forgotten to say, M. Badinot said that M. Ferrand had better do as they had agreed; it was the best thing to do."
"He did not write an answer?"
"No, sir; he said he had not time."
"Very well."
"M. Charles Robert will come in the course of the morning to speak to our master. It seems that he fought a duel yesterday with the Duke de Lucenay."
"And is he wounded?"
"I think not, or else they would have told me so at the house."
"Hark! there's a carriage stopping at the door."
"Oh, what fine horses! how full of spirits they are!"
"And that fat English coachman, with his white wig, and brown livery striped with silver, and his epaulettes like a colonel!"