I am not a clerk of the court, and I shall not go to law with you for thus carrying a dagger in Paris, in the teeth of the ordinances and prohibitions of M.the Provost.

Nevertheless, you are not ignorant of the fact that Noel Lescrivain was condemned, a week ago, to pay ten Parisian sous, for having carried a cutlass.

But this is no affair of mine, and I will come to the point.

I swear to you, upon my share of Paradise, not to approach you without your leave and permission, but do give me some supper." The truth is, Gringoire was, like M.Despreaux, "not very voluptuous." He did not belong to that chevalier and musketeer species, who take young girls by assault.

In the matter of love, as in all other affairs, he willingly assented to temporizing and adjusting terms; and a good supper, and an amiable tete-a-tete appeared to him, especially when he was hungry, an excellent interlude between the prologue and the catastrophe of a love adventure.
The gypsy did not reply.