"If monsieur le chevalier wishes—there must be some second-hand shop hereabout; I could go there and buy a doublet and a pair of breeches!"
"I' faith! you are right; that is what we should have done long ago.—Here, take my purse, which, luckily enough, I did not leave in my short-clothes, and hasten to buy me something to wear—the first things that you see, provided they are decent."
"And of some light color—they are most becoming to me. Do not consider the price, but make haste, sandioux! for I am all gooseflesh. Have you my purse?"
"Yes, monseigneur; I fly to the second-hand shop."
Plumard left the cabinet, and called to the attendant as he passed through the shop:
"We will do without your hot water; my master is going to leave the bath."
"In that case," said the attendant to himself, as he looked after the esquire, "it seems that the tall, thin man won't want it any more; if he's going to get out of his bath, I can begin to draw the water out of his tub."
He went to a room situated directly beneath the men's bathrooms, pressed a spring corresponding to the tub that he proposed to empty, and opened a cock through which the water ran out of doors.
As for Master Hugonnet, urged by his friends, and no longer in full possession of his reason, he had left his house, to make himself completely drunk at his favorite wine shop.