Doubtless she was going over in her mind all the names with which conspiracy had made her familiar.
That is my misfortune, Madame,' I said humbly.
'Nevertheless I am going to scold you,' she rejoined, still eyeing me with some keenness.

'I am glad to see that you are none the worse for your adventure--but others may be.

And you should have borne that in mind, sir.' 'I do not think that I hurt the man seriously,' I stammered.
'I do not refer to that,' she answered coldly.

'You know, or should know, that we are in disgrace here; that the Government regards us already with an evil eye, and that a very small thing would lead them to garrison the village, and perhaps oust us from the little the wars have left us.

You should have known this, and considered it,' she continued.
'Whereas--I do not say that you are a braggart, M.de Barthe.