The General took a seat between Princess Seniavine and Madame Martin.
"I met this morning, in the park, Baronne Warburg, mounted on a magnificent horse.

She said, 'General, how do you manage to have such fine horses ?' I replied: Madame, to have fine horses, you must be either very wealthy or very clever.'" He was so well satisfied with his reply that he repeated it twice.
Paul Vence came near Countess Martin: "I know that senator's name: it is Lyer.

He is the vice-president of a political society, and author of a book entitled, The Crime of December Second." The General continued: "The weather was horrible.

I went into a hut and found Le Menil there.
I was in a bad humor.

He was making fun of me, I saw, because I sought shelter.