To your cost shall you learn it.

By God, sir! do you think that I am to suffer a Sicilian adventurer and a broken tavern ruffler to interfere with my designs ?" Still I kept my temper.
"So!" I said in a bantering tone.

"You confess that you have designs.
Good! But what says the lady, eh?
I am told that she is not yet outrageously enamoured of you, for all your beauty!" Beside himself with passion, his hand sought his sword.

But the gesture was spasmodic.
"Knave!" he snarled.
"Knave to me?
Have a care, St.Auban, or I'll find you a shroud for a wedding garment." "Knave!" he repeated with a snarl.

"What price are you paid by that boy ?" "Pardieu, St.Auban! You shall answer to me for this." "Answer for it?
To you!" And he laughed harshly.