They are so cowardly and make so much trouble!" "I ask your pardon if I have wounded you," replied Dorsenne.

He had touched, he felt it, a tender spot in that heart, and perceived with grief that not only had Alba Steno not written the anonymous letters addressed to Gorka, but that, on the contrary, she had received some herself.

From whom?
Who was the mysterious denunciator who had warned in that abominable manner the daughter of Madame Steno after the lover?
Julien shuddered as he continued: "If I smiled, it was because I believe Mademoiselle Hafner, in case the misfortune should come to her, sensible enough to treat such advice as it merits.

An anonymous letter does not deserve to be read.

Any one infamous enough to make use of weapons of that sort does not deserve that one should do him the honor even to glance at what he has written." "Is it not so ?" said the girl.