A conversation with Gevingey would considerably amplify my contributions to the study of Satanism, especially as regards venefices and succubacy.

Let's see.

Would you mind if we invited him here to dine ?" Carhaix scratched his head, then emptied the ashes of his pipe on his thumbnail.
"Well, you see, the fact is, we have had a slight disagreement." "What about ?" "Oh, nothing very serious.

I interrupted his experiments here one day.
But pour yourself some liqueur, Monsieur Durtal, and you, Des Hermies, why, you aren't drinking at all," and while, lighting their cigarettes, both sipped a few drops of almost proof cognac, Carhaix resumed, "Gevingey, who, though an astrologer, is a good Christian and an honest man--whom, indeed, I should be glad to see again--wished to consult my bells.
"That surprises you, but it's so.

Bells formerly played quite an important part in the forbidden science.