"Well, then—"
"They lie."
"What does it matter?"
He exclaimed,—
"Thus, you will have caused the Bonapartes to re-enter France, and you will be banished from France by a Bonaparte!"[32]
"Who knows," said I, "if I have not committed a fault? This injustice is perhaps a justice."
We were both silent. He resumed,—
"Could you bear exile?"
"I will try."
"Could you live without Paris?"