"Sit here," he continued, relinquishing his armchair to Florent, "and inform the two men of our names and address, adding that we are at their service and ignoring the first inaccuracy on their part.

Let them return!...

And you, Dorsenne, since you are afraid of wounding that gentleman, I will not prevent you from going to his house--personally, do you hear--to warn him that Monsieur Chapron, here present, has chosen for his first second a disagreeable person, an old duellist, anything you like, but who desires strict form, and, first of all, a correct call made upon us by them, in order to settle officially upon a rendezvous." "What did I tell you ?" asked Dorsenne, when he with Florent descended Montfanon's staircase.

"He is a different man since you mentioned the Baron to him.

The discussion between them will be a hot one.