"I believe that they are both gone." "Tut! tut! By my soul, men did not die like that when I was young!" answered the other, leaning forward his fierce grizzled face into the light of the lantern.

"I've been cast from my horse as often as there are tags to my doublet, but, save for the snap of a bone or two, I never had any harm from it.

Pass your rapier under the third rib of the horses, De la Touche; they will never be fit to set hoof to ground again." Two sobbing gasps and the thud of their straining necks falling back to earth told that the two steeds had come to the end of their troubles.
"Where is Latour ?" asked Monsieur de Vivonne.

"Achille Latour has studied medicine at Montpellier.

Where is he ?" "Here I am, your excellency.