"The responsibility is mine, and I am willing to bear it.

It is the old difference of policy between us," he continued, addressing Petitot.

"You are willing to grasp at every petty advantage, I am willing----" "To risk much to gain much," Petitot exclaimed.
"To take some risk to gain a real advantage," Blondel retorted, correcting him with an eye to Fabri; whom alone, as the one impartial hearer, he feared.

"For to what does the course which you are so eager to take amount?
You seize Basterga: later, you will release him at the Grand Duke's request.

What are we the better?
What is gained ?" "Safety." "No, on the other hand, danger.