I recommend it to you, however, if ever you have to fulfil a mission like ours," and he pointed to Dorsenne and himself, with a gesture which constituted the most amicable of acceptations.

"It seems you had too hasty a hand....

Ha! ha! Do not defend yourself.

Such as you see me, at twenty-one I threw a plate in the face of a gentleman who bantered Comte de Chambord before a number of Jacobins at a table d'hote in the provinces.

See," continued he, raising his white moustache and disclosing a scar, "this is the souvenir.