"Why, monsieur——"
"And try to let that shocking wig of yours alone; it annoys me to see you always jerking that sorry thing."
"Why, monsieur——"
"Silence! Who is it that lives here, in this apartment next to me? Is it a new neighbor that I have there?"
"Yes, monsieur, that fine apartment has only been let a week."
"To whom?"
"To a very fashionable, a very distinguished young man, who dresses as if he went to the opera every day, and who spends money——"
"Ah! I understand why you call him very fashionable; what is the man's name?"
"Monsieur Alfred de Saint-Arthur."
"Bigre! that's a magnificent stage name! no one ever has such names except in farces or at the Gymnase."