So that he has not the courage you suppose; nor any kind of courage, as I told him once. He has only insolence."
At parting Le Chapelier again exhorted him to give thought to what he proposed. "Send me word if you change your mind. I am lodged at the Cerf, and I shall be here until the day after to-morrow. If you have ambition, this is your moment."
"I have no ambition, I suppose," said Andre-Louis, and went his way.
That night at the theatre he had a mischievous impulse to test what Le Chapelier had told him of the state of public feeling in the city. They were playing "The Terrible Captain," in the last act of which the empty cowardice of the bullying braggart Rhodomont is revealed by Scaramouche.
After the laughter which the exposure of the roaring captain invariably produced, it remained for Scaramouche contemptuously to dismiss him in a phrase that varied nightly, according to the inspiration of the moment.
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Enough roared Pantaloon I
Alarm stirred the company
There is joy in
My faith but that
The new Scaramouche fell
The members of the
I envy Leandre every
Whither was he going
Then what the devil
You are one of
You don t expect
In the end he
And then he became
But there is Andre
No doubt you approve
We require your help
Where are the fences
Enough roared Pantaloon I
Expecting it now Andre
Never did Andre Louis
Not for us to
And what shall she
Your action would seem
He consulted his watch
It was in Nantes
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