I am boring you with my silly chat when you should undoubtedly be up there." "Certainly not," he replied, laughing.

"What should I do there?
The role of men of action does not begin until the orators have concluded." He spoke so energetically, in spite of his jesting tone, that Mlle.

de Courtornieu was fascinated.

She saw before her, she believed, a man who, as her father had said, would rise to the highest position in the political world.
Unfortunately, her admiration was disturbed by a ring of the great bell that always announces visitors.
She trembled, let go her hold on Martial's arm, and said, very earnestly: "Ah, no matter.

I wish very much to know what is going on up there.