With a few gracious words to Medallion, she bowed and drove away, leaving Valmond in the midst of an admiring crowd.
He was launched on an adventure as whimsical as tragical, if he was an impostor; and if he was not, as pathetic as droll.

He was scarcely conscious that Parpon walked beside him, till the dwarf said: "Hold on, my dauphin, you walk too fast for your poor fool.".