I have forty pupils all trying the same thing.

I am drilling them now in the _Marguerite_, and in a little time you will have nothing else in the streets." Poluche was proceeding to give Tantaine some further information, when a step was heard upon the stairs, and the professor remarked,-- "Here is the master; he never comes up here, because he is afraid of the stairs.

You had better go down to him.".