You must be pleased with yourself--that is more essential.

I am sure that it must be pleasanter now for you to live at Vivey ?" "Hm!--more bearable, certainly." The conversation languished again.

As they approached the confines of the farm they heard distant barking, and then the voices of human beings.

Finally two gunshots broke on the air.
"Ha, ha!" exclaimed Reine, listening, "the Auberive Society is following the hounds, and Claudet must be one of the party.

How is it you were not with them ?" "Claudet took me there, and I was at the breakfast--but, Mademoiselle, I confess that that kind of amusement is not very tempting to me.