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Would you like to get your hand in? I have some foils." "Yes, gladly." Mitouflet returned with foils and masks. "Now, then, let us see what you can do." The pair put themselves on guard. Mitouflet, with his former prowess as grenadier of the guard, made sixty-two passes at Gaudissart, pushed him about right and left, and finally pinned him up against the wall.
Never before had the tragic event of a duel been so much as heard of in that benign and happy valley. "Monsieur Mitouflet, I am to fight to-morrow with Monsieur Vernier," said Gaudissart to his landlord. "I know no one here: will you be my second?" "Willingly," said the host.
Though there was nothing extraordinary in one of the Generals on the Board being sent for, Hulot's conscience was so uneasy that he fancied he saw a cold and sinister expression in Mitouflet's face. "Mitouflet, how is the Prince?" he asked, locking the door of his private room and following the messenger who led the way.
"I still wish I had Roger here," cried the Prince, as Mitouflet, his groom of the chambers, came in. "I was just going to send for him! You may go, Mitouflet. Go you, my dear old fellow, go and have the nomination made out; I will sign it. At the same time, that low schemer will not long enjoy the fruit of his crimes.
"Monsieur, we take twenty subscriptions to the 'Children's Journal," replied the dyer, still pale. "That being so," said Gaudissart, "why shouldn't we all breakfast together? Men who fight are always the ones to come to a good understanding." "Monsieur Mitouflet," said Gaudissart on his return to the inn, "of course you have got a sheriff's officer here?" "What for?"
He knows too much for other folks, who can't always understand him." "I can believe it, for he thoroughly comprehends the abstruse principles of finance." "Yes," said the innkeeper, "and for my part, I am sorry he is a lunatic." "A lunatic! What do you mean?" "Well, crazy, cracked, as people are when they are insane," answered Mitouflet. "But he is not dangerous; his wife takes care of him.
"I still wish I had Roger here," cried the Prince, as Mitouflet, his groom of the chambers, came in. "I was just going to send for him! You may go, Mitouflet. Go you, my dear old fellow, go and have the nomination made out; I will sign it. At the same time, that low schemer will not long enjoy the fruit of his crimes.
"I come, Monsieur," resumed Gaudissart, "to solicit the aid of your knowledge and insight to guide my efforts in this district, where Mitouflet tells me you have the greatest influence. Monsieur, I am sent into the provinces on an enterprise of the utmost importance, undertaken by bankers who "
Never before had the tragic event of a duel been so much as heard of in that benign and happy valley. "Monsieur Mitouflet, I am to fight to-morrow with Monsieur Vernier," said Gaudissart to his landlord. "I know no one here: will you be my second?" "Willingly," said the host.
For his sins, after getting down at the Soleil d'Or, an inn kept by a former grenadier of the imperial guard named Mitouflet, married to a rich widow, the illustrious traveller, after a brief consultation with the landlord, betook himself to the knave of Vouvray, the jovial merry-maker, the comic man of the neighborhood, compelled by fame and nature to supply the town with merriment.
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