He'll murder the boy before your eyes, if you do not separate them." "He won't find it so easy though," said the Chevalier, panting, and out of breath; but still holding his own, and, indeed, more than his own; for he had fixed his left hand in Denot's hair, and was pulling his head backwards with such force, that he nearly broke his neck.
"I think the young one has the best of it," said Santerre; "but come, citizen Denot, your loves and your quarrels are troublesome to us; we have other work to attend to.

Get up, man, get up, I tell you." Denot, by his superior weight and strength, had succeeded in getting the Chevalier to the ground, but Arthur still kept his hold in his hair, and though Adolphe was on the top of his foe, he did not find it very easy to get up.
"Get up, I say," said Santerre.

"You'll gain nothing by wrestling with that fellow; he's more than a match for you.

Well, Captain, what's the matter ?" The room in which the party had passed the night looked out into the garden at the back of the house.

The front room communicated with this by folding-doors, which during the night had been closed.