"And so you embraced on the battlefield?"
"Better still. I have an idea."
"What is it?"
"He is a Frenchman as you know."
"Of good family?"
"Dear friend, they are all of good family since the Revolution. But he is clever—very."
"As a fencing master?"
"Not at all, as an artist. Kaulbach says he is the hope of the present school. He is young."
"Young?"
"Yes, twenty-five or six at most, and handsome."