"Well! was I right or wrong?"
"Alas! right. Are you well?"
"At all events I have no reason to reproach myself in this accursed business. I gave you sufficient warning."
"Has the king returned to the Louvre?"
"'Nonsense!' you said; 'a workman, a nobody, a fine sight it will be!' You have seen it, my poor friend."
"I asked you if his Majesty has returned from Fontainebleau?"
"Yes, and he keenly regrets not having reached Paris on Sunday, in order to look on from one of his towers at his goldsmith's victory over his provost."
"What is said at court?"
"Why, they say that you were thoroughly whipped."
"Hum!" said the provost, who began to be annoyed by this desultory conversation.