“Angel of my dreams! A thousand, thousand thanks for the promise kept: scarcely did I venture to hope its fulfilment. I believed you, indeed, to be half in jest; and then you seemed to think the enterprise beset with such danger⁠—the hour so untimely, the alley so strictly secluded⁠—often, you said, haunted by that dragon, the English teacher⁠— une véritable bégueule Britannique à ce que vous dites⁠—espèce de monstre, brusque et rude comme un vieux caporal de grenadiers, et revêche comme une religieuse ” 42