For a bachelor there is little to be said against it--but for a married man--you seize the point ?" said I.
"_Bien_, Monsieur," he said, swallowing his wrath.

"And Article 3 ?" "Since you have left the army--would it not be better to engage in some profession--unless your private fortune dispenses you from the necessity." He said nothing but: "Article 4 ?" "It would give Madame comfort to live out of Algiers." "_Moi aussi_," he replied rather unexpectedly.

"We have the whole of France to choose from." "Would not Madame be happier if she lived out of France, also?
She has always longed for a social position." "_Eh, bien_?
I can give her one in France." "Are you quite sure ?" I asked, looking him in the eyes.
"Monsieur," said he, rising and giving his moustache a swashbuckler twist upward, "what are you daring to insinuate ?" I leaned back in my chair and fingered the waxed ends of mine.
"Nothing, Monsieur; I ask a simple question, which you surely can have no difficulty in answering." "Your questions are the height of indiscretion," he cried angrily.
"In that case, before we carry this interview further, the Family Council and Madame would do well to have a private consultation." "Monsieur," he cried, completely losing his temper.

"I forbid you to use that tone to me.

You are making a mock of me.