Then with a shrug he turned.

This was the windmill, indeed, and he a poor knight of rueful countenance.

To attack it at closer quarters would mean being dashed to pieces.

Yet on the threshold he turned again.
"M.

de Lesdiguieres," said he, "may I recite to you an interesting fact in natural history?
The tiger is a great lord in the jungle, and was for centuries the terror of lesser beasts, including the wolf.