"Bravo! bravo!" cried the host. "Honor to Zizi! You know three ways already, dear love!"
"And I don't propose to stop at that."
"These ladies succeed in whatever they choose to undertake," said Roncherolle.
Jéricourt, with a curl of his lip, muttered:
"Madame Saqui could do no better!"
"Oh! you always look as if you were sneering!" said Zizi; "but you would be hard put to it to do as much. It's easy to criticise, my dear man!"
"This much is certain, that I shall not venture to contend with you."
"Because you realize your inferiority."
"But I am waiting till you come to the thirty-third way. I fancy that you will do some very extraordinary things then!"
"Oh! my boy, we're not such fools. We mean to have some fun, to get a little screwed, but we don't propose to get drunk. We will learn one more way and that will do for to-night; what do you say, my gallant?"