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"Don't put such ideas into Calyste's mind; you don't know how
dangerous such jokes may prove to be," said Mademoiselle des Touches,
hastily. "I know Beatrix, and there is something too grandiose in her
nature to allow her to change. Besides, Conti will be here."
"Ha!" said Claude Vignon, satirically, "a slight touch of jealousy,
eh?"
"Can you really think so?" said Camille, haughtily.
"You are more perspicacious than a mother," replied Claude Vignon,
still sarcastically.
"But it would be impossible," said Camille, looking at Calyste.
"They are very well matched," remarked Vignon. "She is ten years older
than he; and it is he who appears to be the girl--"
"A girl, monsieur," said Calyste, waking from his reverie, "who has
been twice under fire in La Vendee! If the Cause had had twenty
thousand more such girls--"
"I was giving you some well-deserved praise, and that is easier than
to give you a beard," remarked Vignon.
"I have a sword for those who wear their beards too long," cried
Calyste.
"And I am very good at an epigram," said the other, smiling.


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