"That is quite possible."
"I beg you, monsieur, take some of it; even if it should do nothing but lessen the pain, would that not be a great gain?"
"As you insist upon it, I will take some."
"If you are willing, monsieur, I won't stay long in my booth to-day, and I will bring you some in a little while when I come home."
"No, no, my little neighbor, I won't have it; for you never tell me the price of things; you manage so that they cost me almost nothing. But I don't propose to have that, and I shall be angry if you go on acting in that way; I shall be obliged to deprive myself of the pleasure of seeing you."
"Oh! it wouldn't do any good for you to forbid me to come, monsieur; I should come all the same!"
Violette said this with such heartfelt earnestness that Roncherolle felt the tears gather in his eyes. He pressed the girl's hand and replied in a cheerful tone:
"I will obey you, neighbor; come, Chicotin, my groom, come here."
"Here I am, bourgeois."
"Go to the druggist's on the corner of the boulevard, and ask for some syrup of Boubée. Will you remember that name?"