If there should result from it any annoyance to him I should be deeply grieved, and I am ready to release him from his promise." "No," said the Marquis, after another silence.

"I will not take it back."....

He was so magnanimous when his two or three hobbies were not involved that the slightest delicacy awoke an echo in him.

He again extended his hand to Chapron and continued, but with an accent which betrayed suppressed irritation: "After all, it does not concern us if Monsieur Gorka has chosen to be represented in an affair of honor by one whom he should not even salute....

You will, then, give our two names to those two gentlemen....