You will have many compliments to make me if Gevingey doesn't keep us waiting too long, because a _gigot a l'Anglaise_ won't stand being cooked to shreds." Carhaix's wife looked in.
"Come in," she said.

"My husband is here." Durtal found him dusting the books.

They shook hands.

Durtal, at random, looked over some of the dusted books lying on the table.
"Are these," he asked, "technical works about metals and bell-founding or are they about the liturgy of bells ?" "They are not about founding, though there is sometimes reference to the founders, the 'sainterers' as they were called in the good old days.

You will discover here and there some details about alloys of red copper and fine tin.