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At this point of the argument, Messieurs Split-log, Round-head, and Walk-in-the-Water, having finished their kinni-kinnick, and imbibed a due quantum of whiskey: possibly, moreover, not much entertained by the conversation that was carried on in a language neither of them understood but imperfectly, rose to take their leave.
'En voiture, Messieurs, Mesdames, sings the Doctor; and on we go again at a good round pace, for black care follows hard after us, and discretion prevails not a little over valour in some timorous spirits of the party. At any moment we may meet the sergeant, who will send us back. At any moment we may encounter a flying shell, which will send us somewhere farther off than Grez.
Auban and the mincing gait of Vilmorin. I doffed my hat in a grave salutation, which was courteously returned. "I trust, Messieurs, that I have not kept you waiting?" "I was on the point of expressing that very hope, Monsieur," returned St. Auban. "We have but arrived. Do you come alone?" "As you perceive." "Hum! M. le Vicomte, then, will act for both of us."
"But he does not wear a sword, messieurs!" cried Andre Louis, aghast. "That is easily amended. He may have the loan of mine." "I mean, messieurs," Andre-Louis insisted, between fear for his friend and indignation, "that it is not his habit to wear a sword, that he has never worn one, that he is untutored in its uses.
"It's just as well to get it over, Rayner," he said; "for otherwise I could not help bursting out every time I looked at you." The maitre d'hotel, however, did not appear to think there was anything laughable in the appearance of the two Englishmen. "Oh, messieurs! you are admirable. Let me have the honour of conducting you to the saloon."
"There are two spare rooms in my little house," murmured the junior "one for the stores, the other for sleeping quarters." "It is understood," said Mr. Hume, "that we pay rent, and also that we pay for the protection you may afford us. I insist on that, messieurs."
And, in fact, one of the horsemen of Messieurs Franconi had charge of this part of the pages' education.
It is you, remember, who requested this interview and er dressed your parts so strikingly!" "What are we to understand by that?" De Morbihan interposed. "This, messieurs if you must know." Lanyard dropped for the moment his tone of raillery and bent forward, emphasizing his points by tapping the table with a forefinger.
"What do you mean?" "Each one in the office took a share of your duty; all has gone on as usual, and the Messieurs Durmer have perceived no difference." This was too much. After so many instances of affection, this filled up the measure. I could not restrain my tears. Thus the few services I had been able to do for others had been acknowledged by them a hundredfold!
At the end of this discourse, the Emperor bent his looks on the Empress and the King of Rome, whom his august mother held in her arms, and presenting both by his looks and gestures to the assembly this child whose expressive countenance seemed to reflect the solemnity of the occasion, he added in an agitated voice, "I confide him to you, Messieurs; I confide him to the love of my faithful city of Paris!"
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