"A rabbit-cream, perhaps?"
"No, a pie."
"Thanks; if you will allow me, I will take some cheese, as a pleasant substitute. Gad! I don't wonder that your yard is carpeted with rabbit-hutches; they are productive evidently."
"Much more so than fruit trees."
"Well, well! I see that you will end by preserving them. But your wine is good, that's something."
"Here's my aunt's health!"
"With great pleasure. Vive Élisabeth!"
"Aristoloche and Narcisse, now recite your congratulations."
"What! have the dear children learned something by heart?"
"Yes, aunt; we'll show you."