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This, however, was not the worst, for as soon as they were all scraped together and set right again, the other Countess's partner attacked Jorrocks most furiously, calling him a sacré-nom de-Dieu'd bête of an Englishman, a mauvais sujet, a cochon, etc., then spitting on the floor the greatest insult a Frenchman can offer he vapoured about being one of the "grand nation," "that he was brave the world knew it," and concluded by thrusting his card "Monsieur Charles Adolphe Eugene, Confiturier, No. 15 bis, Rue Poupée" into Jorrocks's face.
God of war!" said he, throwing up his hands, "who guided the victorious army of this grand nation in Egypt, when, from the pyramids, forty centuries beheld our actions oh, brilliant sun, who shone upon our armies at Jaffa, at Naples, Montebello, Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, and Algiers, who blessed our endeavours, who knowest that we are brave brave as a hundred lions look down on Charles Adolphe Eugene, and enable him to massacre and immolate on the altar of his wrath, this sacré-nom de-Dieu'd beastly hog of an Englishman" and thereupon he spit upon the flags with all the venom of a viper.
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