When you left us alone that evening in the parlor, we happened by chance to speak of chemistry.

Compelled by poverty to give up the study of that science, he had become a soldier.

It was, I think, by means of a glass of sugared water that we recognized each other as adepts.

When I ordered Mulquinier to bring the sugar in pieces, the captain gave a start of surprise.

'Have you studied chemistry ?' he asked.