Here is your health!' said I, and pledged him in the prison beer.

'You have chosen to speak in a certain way of a young child,' I continued, 'who might be your daughter, and who was giving alms to me and some others of us mendicants.

If the Emperor'-- saluting--'if my Emperor could hear you, he would pluck off the Cross from your gross body.

I cannot do that; I cannot take away what His Majesty has given; but one thing I promise you--I promise you, Goguelat, you shall be dead to-night.' I had borne so much from him in the past, I believe he thought there was no end to my forbearance, and he was at first amazed.

But I have the pleasure to think that some of my expressions had pierced through his thick hide; and besides, the brute was truly a hero of valour, and loved fighting for itself.