"We shall meet again in the _maquis_, some day, perhaps, and then we'll continue our study of Virgil." Quite a quarter of an hour after Orso had parted company with these worthies, he heard a man running after him, as fast as he could go.

It was Brandolaccio.
"This is too bad, lieutenant!" he shouted breathlessly, "really it is too bad! I wouldn't overlook the trick, if any other man had played it on me.

Here are your ten francs.

All my respects to Mademoiselle Colomba.

You have made me run myself quite out of breath.