Monsieur Eugène smiled as he answered:
"Why, I am still there, monsieur!"
Vaudrey looked at him with a stupefied air, then in an outburst of anger, as if he conveyed in the reply that he hurled at this contemptible fellow, all the projects of his future revenge upon the fools, the knaves, the dull valets and the ungrateful horde, he said, boldly:
"Well, you will salute me again, for I shall return there."
He turned on his heels away from this worthless fellow, and entered the Chamber.
He heard an outburst of bravos; a perfect tempest of enthusiasm reached him. He looked on and bit his lips.
Lucien Granet was in the tribune, and the majority were applauding him.