... forgotten Paris, Saint-Mande, and Belle-Isle - that M. Colbert's mind was occupied with illuminations and fireworks - that for the next month, at least, the ladies had plenty of glances to bestow, ... you, because you are boring yourself to death." "Planchet, do you know M. La Fontaine?" "The chemist at the corner of the Rue Saint-Mederic?" "No, the writer of ... then?" "M. La Fontaine's hare thinks." "Ah, ah!" "Planchet, I am like that hare - I am thinking." "You are thinking, you say?" said Planchet, uneasily....