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"Not at all At the Hôtel-de-Ville
"Yes, indeed At the Petit Bourbon!"
"It was at the Hôtel-de-Ville," retorted Oudarde sharply, "and Dr Scourable addressed thereatly My husband, who is sworn bookseller told me"
"It was at the Petit Bourbon," replied Gervaise, with no less spirit, "and this is what monsieur the cardinal's procurator presented to them: twelve double quarts of hippocras, white, claret, and red; twenty-four boxes of double Lyons ilded; as many torches, worth two livres a piece; and six demi-queues of Beaune wine, white and claret, the best that could be found I have it from eois, and as thisthe Flemish ambassadors with those of Prester John and the Emperor of Trebizond, who ca, and ore rings in their ears"
A Queue was a cask which held a hogshead and a half
A captain of fifty men
"So true is it that they supped at the Hôtel-de-Ville," replied Oudarde but little affected by this catalogue, "that such a triumph of viands and comfits has never been seen"
"I tell you that they were served by Le Sec, sergeant of the city, at the Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, and that that is where you are mistaken"
"At the Hôtel-de-Ville, I tell you!"
"At the Petit-Bourbon, lasses the word hope, which is written on the grand portal"
"At the Hôtel-de-Ville! At the Hôtel-de-Ville! And Husson-le-Voir played the flute!"
"I tell you, no!"
"I tell you, yes!"
"I say, no!"
Plu to retort, and the quarrelof caps, had not Mahiette suddenly exclaimed,--"Look at those people asse in theirat!"
"In sooth," said Gervaise, "I hear the sounds of a tambourine I believe 'tis the little Esoat Eh, be quick, Mahiette! redouble your pace and drag along your boy You are come hither to visit the curiosities of Paris You saw the Fleypsy!" said Mahiette, suddenly retracing her steps, and clasping her son's arm forcibly "God preserve me from it! She would steal my child fro the quay towards the Grève, until she had left the bridge far behind her In theafter her fell upon his knees; she halted breathless Oudarde and Gervaise rejoined her