"I ordered the dinner, and you allow some one else to pay for it!" "It wasn't I, monsieur," said the waiter; "the gentleman went and paid the 'dame du comptoir'; she must have thought it was arranged between you.

Besides, it is not so uncommon for gentlemen to have friendly disputes about paying." "That's enough," said Cerizet, dismissing the waiter.
"Won't these gentlemen take their coffee ?--it is paid for," said the man before he left the room.
"A good reason for not taking it," replied Cerizet, angrily.

"It is really inconceivable that in a house of this kind such an egregious blunder should be committed.

What do you think of such insolence ?" he added, when the waiter had left the room.
"Bah!" exclaimed Dutocq, taking his hat, "it is a schoolboy proceeding; he wanted to show he had money; it is easy to see he never had any before." "No, no! that's not it," said Cerizet; "he meant to mark the rupture.

'I will not owe you even a dinner,' is what he says to me." "But, after all," said Dutocq, "this banquet was given to celebrate your enthronement as principal tenant of the grand house.