"What a tissue of absurdities! How can the King cede his crown to Henry V., who, according to your nonsense, must be his grandson, when Monseigneur le Dauphin is living.

Are you prophesying the Dauphin's death ?" Bixiou.

"What's Gorix, pray ?--the name of a cat ?" Colleville [provoked].

"It is the archaeological and lapidarial abbreviation of the name of a town, my good friend; I looked it out in Malte-Brun: Goritz, in Latin Gorixia, situated in Bohemia or Hungary, or it may be Austria--" Bixiou.

"Tyrol, the Basque provinces, or South America.