But what do you mean ?" added he, planting himself in front of his friend.

"Do you write verses like these and nobody knows anything about them?
It is absurd.

Do you wish, then, to imitate Chatterton?
That is an old game, entirely used up! You must push yourself, show yourself.

I will take charge of that myself! Your evening is free, is it not?
Very well, come with me; before six o'clock I shall have told your name to twenty trumpeters, who will make all Paris resound with the news that there is a poet in the Faubourg Saint-Jacques.

I will wager, you savage, that you never have put your foot into the Cafe de Seville.