"My Lord," said Julien, "your seminary can offer you 197 much less unworthy of your high esteem."
"How is that?" said the Prelate astonished by the number.
"I can support by official proof just what I have had the honour of saying before my lord. I obtained the number 198 at the seminary's annual examination by giving accurate answers to the very questions which are earning me at the present moment my lord's approbation.
"Ah, it is the Benjamin of the abbé Pirard," said the Bishop with a laugh, as he looked at M. de Frilair. "We should have been prepared for this. But it is fair fighting. Did you not have to be woken up, my friend," he said, addressing himself to Julien. "To be sent here?"
"Yes, my Lord. I have only been out of the seminary alone once in my life to go and help M. the a
