But across the storm which disturbed his spirit, he recognized the person and name of M.du Marnet, and made a grimace.

Between officers, and, above all, between officers of different arms of the service, politeness is a little excessive, etiquette rather severe, _amour-propre_ somewhat susceptible.

M.du Marnet, who was preeminently a man of the world, understood at once, from the attitude of M.Fougas, that he was not in the presence of a friend.
The punch appeared, blazing, went out with its strength unimpaired, and was dispensed, with a big ladle, into threescore glasses.

Fougas drank with everybody, except M.du Marnet.

The conversation, which was erratic and noisy, imprudently raised a question of comparative merits.