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"And what did he answer?" asked the Countess. "I attended myself to a soufflet," replied Florac; "but his reply was much more agreeable. The young insulary, with many blushes and a gros juron, as his polite way is, said he had not wished to say a word against that person. 'Of whom the name, cried I, 'ought never to be spoken in these places. Herewith our little dispute ended."
He had only informed her most politely that she was to be transferred to another diligence and must do him the favour to descend; but she evidently knew of but one way for a respectable young insulary of her sex to receive the politeness of a foreign adventurer guilty of an eye betraying latent pleasantry. Heaven only knew what he was saying!