Delhasse.
"For my part," I concluded, "I doubt if Madame will be at the inn to welcome us on our return." "She came to me and told me that Marie would give all I asked, and I gave her the necklace to give to Marie; and believing what she told me, I was anxious not to fight you, for I thought you had nothing to gain by fighting.

Yet you angered me, so I resolved to fight." He seemed to have strength for nothing more; yet at the end, before life left him, one strange last change came over him.

Both his rough passion and the terrible abasement of defeat seemed to leave him, and his face became again the face of a well-bred, self-controlled man.

There was a helpless effort at a shrug of his shoulders, a scornful slight smile on his lips, and a look of recognition, almost of friendliness, almost of humor, in his eyes, as he said to me, who still held his head: "_Mon Dieu_, but I've made a mess of it, Mr.Aycon!" And I do not know that anyone could better this epitaph which the Duke of Saint-Maclou composed for himself in the last words he spoke this side the grave..