"Your servant, gentlemen.

Well, Pierrotin, how soon do you start ?" "I have two travellers in there after a cup of coffee," replied Pierrotin.
The hollow-cheeked young man and his page reappeared.
"Come, let's start!" was the general cry.
"We are going to start," replied Pierrotin.

"Now, then, make ready," he said to the porter, who began thereupon to take away the stones which stopped the wheels.
Pierrotin took Rougeot by the bridle and gave that guttural cry, "Ket, ket!" to tell the two animals to collect their energy; on which, though evidently stiff, they pulled the coach to the door of the Lion d'Argent.
After which manoeuvre, which was purely preparatory, Pierrotin gazed up the rue d'Enghien and then disappeared, leaving the coach in charge of the porter.
"Ah ca! is he subject to such attacks,--that master of yours ?" said Mistigris, addressing the porter.
"He has gone to fetch his feed from the stable," replied the porter, well versed in all the usual tricks to keep passengers quiet.
"Well, after all," said Mistigris, "'art is long, but life is short'-- to Bichette." At this particular epoch, a fancy for mutilating or transposing proverbs reigned in the studios.

It was thought a triumph to find changes of letters, and sometimes of words, which still kept the semblance of the proverb while giving it a fantastic or ridiculous meaning.[*] [*] It is plainly impossible to translate many of these proverbs and put any fun or meaning into them .-- Tr.
"Patience, Mistigris!" said his master; "'come wheel, come whoa.'" Pierrotin here returned, bringing with him the Comte de Serizy, who had come through the rue de l'Echiquier, and with whom he had doubtless had a short conversation.
"Pere Leger," said Pierrotin, looking into the coach, "will you give your place to Monsieur le comte?
That will balance the carriage better." "We sha'n't be off for an hour if you go on this way," cried Georges.
"We shall have to take down this infernal bar, which cost such trouble to put up.

Why should everybody be made to move for the man who comes last?
We all have a right to the places we took.