"Or a cavern!"

"Ah! victory, messieurs! I see a light—a very small one, to be sure, but still it’s a light."

"Really? I can’t see anything myself."

"Look where I am pointing."

"I can’t even see your finger. Ah, yes! I see it; let us go toward it."

"Suppose we should find ourselves at the ogre’s house?"

"As you are the smallest, Robineau, you shall be Hop-o’-my-Thumb, and steal the seven-leagued boots."

Robineau, who kept his eyes fixed on the light, soon exclaimed:

"Two, three, four, ten lights! we are saved! It’s a village; it’s Cha—Cha—Mon Dieu! what do they call it?"

"Chadrat."