Therefore, there's my hand; you may take it or not.

'Tis not over soft; but there's no blood on it, and it never took a bribe.

Let those say so who can.
And what I say next is this: Dr.Jameray has fallen sick, and I've undertaken to drive his little wagon, with the sign of the bleeding tooth, from hence to Montauban.

As far as that I'll give my young friend here a cast, and he may thence easily take boat down the Garonne to Bordeaux.

At least, if he cannot of himself, I'll manage it for him." How grateful we were to the worthy La Croissette! Not one of us distrusted him in the least; at any rate, if M.Bourdinave did so at first, he was soon reassured by us, and took the honest fellow heartily by the hand.