“I will be your second, and I thank you for thinking of me. Monsieur is your other second, no doubt?”
“Yes, monsieur; if I don’t die of hunger first.”
“When does your duel take place?”
“I have no idea as yet; I told the fellow that I should expect his seconds; that is why I am in a hurry to return home.”
“I will be at your house in an hour.”
“Oh! monsieur, you have plenty of time, I assure you!” said Freluchon. “I know Chamoureau, alias de Belleville; he’ll drag the thing out.”
“I don’t know what those gentlemen may do, Freluchon, but I propose to be there when they come. Let us go.”
“Have a glass of madeira, messieurs, to restore your strength.”
“Ah, yes! one, two, several glasses of madeira!”
“Freluchon, you are getting to be a genuine glutton!”