If not, I'll return to Paris." "But her brother will oppose you." "Her brother?
Pooh! If he doesn't die of the sword-thrust you gave him, which I am told is in the region of the lung and passing dangerous, he will at least be abed for a couple of months to come." "But I, mon cher Andre?
What role do you reserve for me, that you have desired me to go with you ?" "The role of Mentor if you will.

Methought you would prove a merry comrade to help one o'er a tedious journey, and knowing that there was little to hold you to Paris, and probably sound reasons why you should desire to quit it, meseemed that perhaps you would consent to bear me company.

Who knows, my knight errant, what adventures may await you and what fortunes?
If the heiress displeases me, it may be that she will please you--or mayhap there is another heiress at Blois who will fall enamoured of those fierce moustachios." I laughed with him at the improbability of such things befalling.

I carried in my bosom too large a heart, and one that was the property of every wench I met--for just so long as I chanced to be in her company.
It was no more than in harmony with this habit of mine, that when, next morning in the common-room of the Connetable, I espied Jeanneton, the landlord's daughter, and remarked that she was winsome and shapely, with a complexion that would not have dishonoured a rose-petal, I permitted myself to pinch her dainty cheek.

She slapped mine in return, and in this pleasant manner we became acquainted.
"Sweet Jeanneton," quoth I with a laugh, "that was mightily ill-done! I did but pinch your cheek as one may pinch a sweet-smelling bud, so that the perfume of it may cling to one's fingers." "And I, sir," was the pert rejoinder, "did but slap yours as one may slap a misbehaving urchin's; so that he may learn better manners." Nevertheless she was pleased with my courtly speech, and perchance also with my moustachios, for a smile took the place of the frown wherewith she had at first confronted me.