But again the Chevalier caught and held him.
"No, no, Gervais! Let be, in God's name!" "Let him come, monsieur," raved Andre-Louis, his voice thick and concentrated.

"Let him complete his coward's work on me, and thus make himself safe from a coward's wages." M.de Chabrillane let his cousin go.

He came white to the lips, his eyes glaring at the lad who so recklessly insulted him.

And then he checked.
It may be that he remembered suddenly the relationship in which this young man was popularly believed to stand to the Seigneur de Gavrillac, and the well-known affection in which the Seigneur held him.

And so he may have realized that if he pushed this matter further, he might find himself upon the horns of a dilemma.