He ate his excellent breakfast with an equally excellent appetite, and Monsieur Berryer noticed that his hand did not tremble.

He observed, too, that he had spirit enough to talk and laugh with his friends, and when Captain de Galisonniere and another young Frenchman, Lieutenant Armand Glandelet, arrived, he welcomed them warmly.
The captain carried under his arm a long thin case, in which Monsieur Berryer knew that the swords lay.

Lieutenant Armand Glandelet was presented duly and Robert liked his appearance, his age apparently twenty-three or four, his complexion fair and his figure slender.

His experience in affairs of honor was not as great as de Galisonniere's, and he showed some excitement, but he was one of the _honnetes gens_ and he too wished, the punishment of de Mezy.

Perhaps he had suffered from him some insult or snub which he was not in a position to resent fully.
"Is your wrist strong and steady and without soreness, Mr.Lennox ?" asked Captain de Galisonniere.
"It was never more flexible," replied Robert confidently.