During the following day she talked to him frequently, and found his conversation interesting.

He was asked many questions about his own country, and described it well.

Corsica, which he had left when young, to go first to college, and then to the Ecole militaire, had remained in his imagination surrounded with poetic associations.

When he talked of its mountains, its forests, and the quaint customs of its inhabitants he grew eager and animated.

As may be imagined, the word _vengeance_ occurred more than once in the stories he told--for it is impossible to speak of the Corsicans without either attacking or justifying their proverbial passion.