"She's nothing but a trump!"
"I flatter myself she is. But, talking of trumps, you know the Chouette?"
"Yes; Nicholas has told me the Schoolmaster did for her, and he has gone mad."
"Perhaps from losing his sight through some accident. But I say, old fellow, it's quite understood that you will buy my two bargains, and so I shall not speak to any one else."
"Don't; and we will talk them over this evening."
"Well, and how are you getting on here?"
"Oh, we laugh and play the fool."
"Who's prévôt of the chamber?"
"The Skeleton."
"He's not to be joked with. I have seen him at Martial's, in the Isle du Ravageur. We had a flare-up with Josephine and La Boulotte."