This confidence would have been far better made to a friend than to a stranger of whom you know nothing." "It is true, monsieur, that I do not know you; but I believe in faces, and I think yours that of an honest man." "But, monsieur, it is possible that this music may annoy my mistress also, and then she might move." "Well, that cannot be helped, and I must take my chance." "Thanks, monsieur, for your confidence in a poor unknown; I will try to be worthy of it;" and bowing, he went into the house.
Chicot murmured to himself, "Poor young man, what a wreck, and I have seen him so gay and so handsome.".