But if Sir John should die--as was very likely--honour compelled him to seek vengeance of a deed to which he had himself so very largely contributed.
"I read that man as if he were an open book," the boy announced, with callow boastfulness.

"He has the subtlety of Satan, yet he does not delude me.

It was at me he struck through Killigrew.

Because he desires you, Rosamund, he could not--as he bluntly told me--deal with me however I provoked him, not even though I went the length of striking him.

He might have killed me for't; but he knew that to do so would place a barrier 'twixt him and you.