If I were a rich man, I would snap my fingers at him; but how can I, with a paltry eight hundred a year, provide for that woman?
Pshaw! If I could but settle it with a pair of hair-triggers and twenty paces of turf, I'd leave little work for the lawyers!" "Well, then, what is to be done ?" "Only this," replied he, striding impatiently to and fro, like a caged lion; "I must just bear with my helplessness, and leave the remedy to those who can oppose skill to skill, and lawyer to lawyer." "At all events, you marry the lady." "Ay--I marry the lady; but I start to-morrow night for Berlin, _en route_ for anywhere that chance may lead me." "Without her ?" "Without her.

Do you suppose that I would stay in Paris--her husband--and live apart from her?
Meet her, like an ordinary acquaintance?
See others admiring her?
Be content to lounge in and out of her _soirees_, or ride beside her carriage now and then, as you or fifty others might do?
Perhaps, have even to endure the presence of De Caylus himself?
_Merci_! Any number of miles, whether of land or sea, were better than a martyrdom like that!" "De Caylus!" I repeated.

"Where have I heard that name ?" "You may have heard of it in a hundred places," replied my friend.

"As I said before, the man is a gallant soldier, and does gallant things.

But to return to the present question--may I depend on you to-morrow?
For we must have a witness, and our witness must be both discreet and silent." "On my silence and discretion you may rely absolutely." "And you can be here by nine ?" "By daybreak, if you please." "I won't tax you to that extent.