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"Upon my soul!" exclaimed Jehan, "that can only be my friend, Captain Phoebus!"

This name of Phoebus reached the ears of the archdeacon at the 's procurator the dragon which is hiding its tail in a bath, fro Doreat amazement of Char a tall officer at the door of the Gondelaurier mansion

It was, in fact, Captain Phoebus de Châteaupers He was backed up against a corner of the house of his betrothed and swearing like a heathen

"Byhior"

"Horns and thunder!" replied the captain

"Horns and thunder yourself!" replied the student "Come now, fair captain, whence coood cooing at a gallop cannot halt short Noearing at a hard gallop I have just been with those prudes, and when I come forth, I always find le, ~ventre et tonnerre~!"

"Will you come and drink?" asked the scholar

This proposition cal, but I have no money"

"But I have!"

"Bah! let's see it!"

Jehan spread out the purse before the captain's eyes, with dignity and simplicity Meanwhile, the archdeacon, who had abandoned the dumbfounded Charmolue where he stood, had approached the the him, so deeply were they absorbed in contemplation of the purse

Phoebus exclaimed: "A purse in your pocket, Jehan! 'tis the moon in a bucket of water, one sees it there but 'tis not there There is nothing but its shadow Pardieu! let us wager that these are pebbles!"

Jehan replied coldly: "Here are the pebbles ith I paveanother word, he e post, with the air of a Roes, big-blanks, little blanks, s of Paris, real eagle liards! 'Tis dazzling!"

An ancient copper coin, the forty-fourth part of a sou or the twelfth part of a farthing

Jehan renified and immovable Several liards had rolled into the mud; the captain in his enthusiasm stooped to pick them up Jehan restrained him

"Fye, Captain Phoebus de Châteaupers!"

Phoebus counted the coins, and turning towards Jehan with solemnity, "Do you know, Jehan, that there are three and twenty sous parisis! whoht, in the Street Cut-Weazand?"