"I want to see Monsieur Albert's father—Monsieur Vermoncey."
"What do you want of him?"
"What I want of him concerns nobody but him and me, and I am not disposed to tell it to you."
"Did monsieur send you on some errand, and have you brought back an answer?"
"He didn't send me anywhere; but I have something to say to him."
"Monsieur is in his study; he doesn't receive anyone."
"But he must receive me!"
"When monsieur refuses every day to receive visits from his friends, I don't imagine he is likely to give preference to a messenger!"
Sans-Cravate spat on his hands and rubbed them together, then shook his fist in the servant's face.
"Do you see that?" he said; "if you don't do my errand right away, I'll smash your nose so that I'll defy you to blow it!"