"I am cast aside like an outworn garment, and the garment is accounted paid for because through much hard usage it has come to look a little threadbare." And now it entered her mind that perhaps there was some justice in what he said.

Perhaps she had used him a little hardly.
"Do you think, Gonzaga," she said, and her tone was now a shade more gentle, "that because you have served me you may affront me, and that knight who has served me, also, and----" "In what can such service as his compare with mine?
What has he done that I have not done more ?" "Why, when the men rebelled here----" "Bah! Cite me not that.

Body of God! it is his trade to lead such swine.
He is one of themselves.

But for the rest, what has such a man as this to lose by his share in your rebellion, compared with such a loss as mine must be ?" "Why, if things go ill, I take it he may lose his life," she answered, in a low voice.

"Can you lose more ?" He made a gesture of impatience.
"If things go ill--yes.