Or are you still so virtuous?
Faith, how little some men learn from the world they live in! If I had your chance!" "Come, Count, you'd be the last man to trust Rupert of Hentzau." "If I made it worth his while ?" "But he's a man who would take the pay and betray his associate." Again Rupert flushed.

When he next spoke his voice was hard, cold, and low.
"By God, Rudolf Rassendyll," said he, "I'll kill you here and now." "I ask no better than that you should try." "And then I'll proclaim that woman for what she is in all Strelsau." A smile came on his lips as he watched Rudolf's face.
"Guard yourself, my lord," said Mr.Rassendyll.
"Ay, for no better than--There, man, I'm ready for you." For Rudolf's blade had touched his in warning.
The steel jangled.

The girl's pale face was at the crevice of the hinge.
She heard the blades cross again and again.

Then one would run up the other with a sharp, grating slither.

At times she caught a glimpse of a figure in quick forward lunge or rapid wary withdrawal.