"He has a fine beard!" said Liénarde.

"Will what they are about to say here be fine?" inquired
Gisquette, timidly.

"Very fine, mademoiselle," replied the unknown, without
the slightest hesitation.

"What is it to be?" said Liénarde.

"'The Good Judgment of Madame the Virgin,'--a morality,
if you please, damsel."

"Ah! that makes a difference," responded Liénarde.

A brief silence ensued--broken by the stranger.

"It is a perfectly new morality, and one which has never
yet been played."

"Then it is not the same one," said Gisquette, "that was
given two years ago, on the day of the entrance of monsieur
the legate, and where three handsome maids played the
parts--"

"Of sirens," said Liénarde.

"And all naked," added the young man.