"Axel," said he very mildly; "you are a very ingenious young man, you have done me a splendid service, at a moment when, wearied out with the struggle, I was going to abandon the contest.
«Axel, dit-il d'une voix assez douce, tu es un garçon très ingénieux; tu m'as rendu là un fier service, quand, de guerre lasse, j'allais abandonner cette combinaison.