And all three, running abreast rapidly, made their way to the station like three grotesque figures in a comic newspaper.

The train was on the point of starting.  They sprang into their carriage.  Then the Englishmen, taking off their travelling caps, waved them three times over their heads, exclaiming: 

“Hip! hip! hip! hurrah!”

And gravely, one after the other, they extended their right hands to M. Dubuis and then went back and sat down in their own corner.