Excerpt from The Comical Romance, Vol. 2 of 2: And Other Tales

Monsieur Ragotin, quoth he, if it had been a little later I should verily have thought you had been drunk, notwithstanding, I cannot help believing that you are either a madman or a fool. To whom, for God's sake, do you think you are talking added he, and what a devil makes you to talk to me of schemes, and the in¿uences of stars? Do you take me either for an astrologer or a magician? Prithee consider a little, Monsieur Ragotin, proceeded he.

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