62. “I, my Cousin, will give you some advice—it is, that if you delay any more Gianetto will reach the maquis, then it will take a cleverer fellow to go and hunt for him.”
Main crisis augmented.
63. The adjutant drew from his pocket a silver watch worth quite ten crowns; and seeing how the little Fortunato’s eyes sparkled when hePlot Incident Particularized. looked at it, he said, as he held the watch suspended at the end of its steel chain:
Character appeal.
64. “You rogue! you would like very well to have such a watch as this hung round your neck, and to go and promenade the streets of Porto-Vecchio, proud as a peacock; people would ask you, ‘What time is it?’ and you would reply, ‘Look at my watch!’”
65. “When I am grown up, my uncle the corporal will give me a watch.”
66. “Yes; but your uncle’s son has one already—not such a fine one as this, it is true—of course, he is younger than you.”
67. The child sighed.
68. “Well, would you like this watch, little Cousin?”
Suspense.