"The devil! that's a nuisance. What will he think, when he sees that I never pay?"
"Why, after your saying that you had been robbed, did you add that you still had fifteen thousand francs in your pocket?"
"Oh! why, why! because I wanted to play the great man, and not let your companion imagine that you would pay my expenses."
"I don't dare to ask Ménard for the money; I should be afraid of hurting his feelings."
"Never fear; I'll undertake to make him turn it over of his own motion."
"How?"
"You will see."
"When you hold the purse-strings, don't play the swell too much; remember that we shall not have any more for a long while."
"Can it be that you believe that I am still a rattle-head and gambler, as I was in Paris? No, my dear Frédéric, I am too well pleased to be travelling with you, to make a fool of myself; I tell you again, I mean to be a second Mentor."
"Yes; your performance in the cow-barn is a very promising beginning."