I know what men are, and you only know what noblemen are! Where is your kinsman, Adrian ?" "He is here, noble Montreal," said Stephen, shrugging his shoulders, with a half-disdainful smile at the rebuke, which he thought it more prudent not to resent; "he is here!--see him enter!" "You have heard the news ?" exclaimed Montreal.
"I have." "And despise the revolution ?" "I fear it!" "Then you have some sense in you.

But this is none of my affair: I will not interrupt your consultations.

Adieu for the present!" and, ere Stephen could prevent him, the Knight had quitted the chamber.
"What means this demagogue ?" Montreal muttered to himself.

"Would he trick me ?--has he got rid of my presence in order to monopolise all the profit of the enterprise?
I fear me so!--the cunning Roman! We northern warriors could never compete with the intellect of these Italians but for their cowardice.

But what shall be done?
I have already bid Rodolf communicate with the brigands, and they are on the eve of departure from their present lord.