My name would not save me were it ever so famous.' In the same way he declined to make a single discovery regarding the plot.

'It was all my doing,' he said; 'each man engaged in it only knew me, and is ignorant of every one of his comrades.

The secret is mine alone, and the secret shall die with me.' When the officers asked him what was the reason which induced him to meditate a crime so horrible?
--'It was your infernal brutality and tyranny,' he said.

'You are all butchers, ruffians, tigers, and you owe it to the cowardice of your men that you were not murdered long ago.' At this his captain burst into the most furious exclamations against the wounded man, and rushing up to him, struck him a blow with his fist.

But Le Blondin, wounded as he was, as quick as thought seized the bayonet of one of the soldiers who supported him, and plunged it into the officer's breast.