But I faced them so coolly, and showed so bold a front, and the ground where we stood was so open, that the idea took no root.

They fell to wrangling again more viciously than before.

One tapped his gun and the other his pistols.

The landlord scolded, the dumb man gurgled.

At last their difference ended as I had hoped it would.
'Very well then, we will both go back!' the innkeeper cried in a rage.
'And Antoine must see him on.