And that is precisely what it did.

He rose.
"Are there in the world no laws but game laws ?" he demanded, angrily.
"Have you never by any chance heard of the laws of humanity ?" The Marquis sighed wearily.

"What have I to do with the laws of humanity ?" he wondered.
M.de Vilmorin looked at him a moment in speechless amazement.
"Nothing, M.le Marquis.

That is--alas!--too obvious.

I hope you will remember it in the hour when you may wish to appeal to those laws which you now deride." M.de La Tour d'Azyr threw back his head sharply, his high-bred face imperious.
"Now what precisely shall that mean?
It is not the first time to-day that you have made use of dark sayings that I could almost believe to veil the presumption of a threat." "Not a threat, M.le Marquis--a warning.