ARTHUR SCHNITZLER

Lebrêt Certainly, certainly, I will pay.

[Host hesitates.]

Grasset. Show him that you have money, Labrêt.

[Lebrêt draws out his purse.]

Host. Now I will see if I— (He opens the cock of a barrel and fills two glasses.) Where do yon come from, Grasset? The Palais-Royal?

Grasset. For sure—I made a speech there. Ay, my good friend, it is my turn now. Do you know whom I spoke after?

Host. Well?

Grasset. After Camille Desmoulins. Yes, indeed, I dared to do it. And tell me, Labrêt, who had the greater applause—Desmoulins or I?

Lebrêt. You—without a doubt.