The latter, knowing nothing of the events leading up to the blow his nephew had received, sent for the delinquent and after a terrible lecture informed him that he was no longer a member of the school, and must be ready to return to his mother at Bourg that very day.

Louis replied that his things would be packed in ten minutes, and he out of the school in fifteen.

Of the blow he himself had received he said not a word.
The reply seemed more than disrespectful to the Marquis Tiburce Valence.
He was much inclined to send the insolent boy to the dungeon for a week, but reflected that he could not confine him and expel him at the same time.
The child was placed in charge of an attendant, who was not to leave him until he had put him in the coach for Macon; Madame de Montrevel was to be notified to meet him at the end of the journey.
Bonaparte meeting the boy, followed by his keeper, asked an explanation of the sort of constabulary guard attached to him.
"I'd tell you if you were still my friend," replied the child; "but you are not.

Why do you bother about what happens to me, whether good or bad ?" Bonaparte made a sign to the attendant, who came to the door while Louis was packing his little trunk.

He learned then that the child had been expelled.