Dalibard's lip curled at the boy's coxcombry,--though such tastes he himself had fostered, according to his ruling principles, that to govern, you must find a foible, or instil it; but the sneer changed into a smile.
"Are you satisfied with yourself, joli garcon ?" he said, with saturnine playfulness.
"At least, sir, I hope that you will not be ashamed of me when you formally legitimatize me as your son.

The time has come, you know, to keep your promise." "And it shall be kept, do not fear.

But first I have an employment for you,--a mission; your first embassy, Gabriel." "I listen, sir." "I have to send to England a communication of the utmost importance--public importance--to the secret agent of the French government.

We are on the eve of a descent on England.

We are in correspondence with some in London on whom we count for support.