These good people who were watching me so curiously apparently wanted to question me.

They were like you, Father Courtois: they want to know what to make of General Bonaparte's arrival." "Do you know what they say, M.Louis ?" "Still another rumor, Father Courtois ?" "I should think so, but they only whisper it." "What is it ?" "They say that he has come to demand the throne of his Majesty Louis XVIII.

from the Directory and the king's return to it; and that if Citizen Gohier as president doesn't give it up of his own accord he will take it by force." "Pooh!" exclaimed the young officer with an incredulous air bordering on irony.

But Father Courtois insisted on his news with an affirmative nod.
"Possibly," said the young man; "but as for that, it's news for me.

And now that you know me, will you open the gate ?" "Of course I will.