I will meet you if you desire it, monsieur."
"What else do you suppose that I desire? To talk?"
Andre-Louis turned to his friends and sighed. "So that I am to go
another jaunt to the Bois. Isaac, perhaps you will kindly have a
word with one of these friends of M. le Marquis', and arrange for
nine o'clock to-morrow, as usual."
"Not to-morrow," said the Marquis shortly to Le Chapeher. "I have
an engagement in the country, which I cannot postpone."
Le Chapelier looked at Andre-Louis.
"Then for M. le Marquis' convenience, we will say Sunday at the
same hour."
"I do not fight on Sunday. I am not a pagan to break the holy day."
"But surely the good God would not have the presumption to damn a
gentleman of M. le Marquis' quality on that account? Ah, well,
Isaac, please arrange for Monday, if it is not a feast-day or
monsieur has not some other pressing engagement. I leave it in
your hands."
He bowed with the air of a man wearied by these details, and
threading his arm through Kersain's withdrew.
"Ah, Dieu de Dieu! But what a trick of it you have," said the
Breton deputy, entirely unsophisticated in these matters.
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