Some think she's a bit of a devil; but she can be a devil of a saint, that's all I've got to say." "Zoug-Zoug's responsible for the devil," said Fancourt to Bagshot.
"Shut up, Fan," rejoined Bagshot, hurriedly, and then whispered to him quickly.
Fancourt sent self-conscious glances down the table towards Gaston; and then a young American, newly come to Paris, said: "Who's Zoug-Zoug, and what's Zoug-Zoug ?" "It's milk for babes, youngster," answered Bagshot quickly, and changed the conversation.
Gaston saw something strange in the little incident; but he presently forgot it for many a day, and then remembered it for many a day, when the wheel had spun through a wild arc.
When they rose from the table, Meyerbeer went to Bagshot, and said: "Say, who's Zoug-Zoug, anyway ?" Bagshot coolly replied: "I'm acting for another paper.

What price ?" "Fifty dollars," in a low voice, eagerly.

Bagshot meditated.
"H'm, fifty dollars! Two hundred and fifty francs, or thereabouts.
Beggarly!" "A hundred, then." Bagshot got to his feet, lighting a cigarette.
"Want to have a pretty story against a woman, and to smutch a man, do you?
Well, I'm hard up; I don't mind gossip among ourselves; but sell the stuff to you--I'll see you damned first!" This was said sufficiently loud; and after that, Meyerbeer could not ask Fancourt, so he departed with Gaston, who courteously dismissed him, to his astonishment and regret, for he had determined to visit the menagerie with his quarry.
Gaston went to his apartments, and cheerily summoned Jacques.
"Now, little man, for a holiday! The menagerie: lions, leopards, and a grand dompteuse; and afterwards dinner with me at the Cafe Blanche.
I want a blow-out of lions and that sort.

I'd like to be a lion-tamer myself for a month, or as long as might be." He caught Jacques by the shoulders--he had not done so since that memorable day at Ridley Court.

"See, Jacques, we'll do this every year.
Six months in England, and three months on the Continent,--in your France, if you like,--and three months in the out-of-the-wayest place, where there'll be big game.