What!'-- he threw his head up--'Is not a daughter of France worth a broken back ?' 'Tu-dieu, yes,' says the Dauphin; 'but it is a stoutish back, Richard.
It is a back which ranks high.

Kings clap it familiarly.

Conrad of Montferrat calls it a cousin's back.

The Emperor has embraced it at an Easter fair.' 'I would as soon break Conrad's back as his, Dauphin, believe me,' Richard replied; 'but Conrad has said nothing.

And there is another reason.' 'I have thought myself of a reason against it,' the Dauphin said quickly, yet with a flutter of timidity.