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who wrote each of the three hundred treatises commemorated by Diogenes
Laertes."
"That's a lie!" said the metaphysician, for the wine had gotten a little
into his head.
"Very well!--very well, sir!--very well, indeed, sir!" said his Majesty,
apparently much flattered.
"That's a lie!" repeated the restaurateur, dogmatically; "that's
a--hiccup!--a lie!"
"
Well, well, have it your own way!" said the devil, pacifically, and
Bon-Bon, having beaten his Majesty at argument, thought it his duty to
conclude a second bottle of Chambertin.
"
As I was saying," resumed the visiter--"as I was observing a little
while ago, there are some very outre notions in that book of yours
Monsieur Bon-Bon. What, for instance, do you mean by all that humbug
about the soul? Pray, sir, what is the soul?"
"
The--hiccup!--soul," replied the metaphysician, referring to his MS.,
is undoubtedly-"
"
"No, sir!"
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