The eagles are the heroes, and the owls the sages.

Duplessis is not an eagle nor an owl.

I should rather call him a falcon, except that I would not attempt to hoodwink him." "Call him what you will," said the Marquis, indifferently; "M.

Duplessis can be nothing to me." "I am not so sure of that," answered Frederic, somewhat nettled by the phlegm with which the Provincial regarded the pretensions of the Parisian.

"Duplessis, I repeat it, is an extraordinary man.