“What does Hercle mean?”

Bahorel answered:⁠—

“It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin.”

Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A.B.C. He shouted to him:⁠—

“Quick, cartridges, para bellum .”

“A fine man! that’s true,” said Gavroche, who now understood Latin.