They drank their coffees, gave an ecu to the proprietor, and went out.

According to the popular notion, he had no crown for himself, but, at most, a petit ecu, worth thirty pence; consequently none to lend, on any pretence whatever, until the consecrated Maid should take him to Rheims.

I have made acquaintance at the Ecu de Genève with a very gallant and accomplished officer, the Chevalier Zadera, a Pole by birth and a Colonel in the French army.

One evening at the Ecu de Genève I found Zadera in altercation on political subjects with two French Ultras who had been emigrants, a Genevois and a Bernois, both anti-liberal.