Dismayed anger, and an arrogance more utter than before, took the place of the sympathy he had been betrayed into displaying.
"Who ?" he shouted, and without waiting for an answer, "Why, here's impudence," he stormed on, "to come before me with such a charge against a gentleman of M.de La Tour d'Azyr's eminence! How dare you speak of him as a coward...." "I speak of him as a murderer," the young man corrected.

"And I demand justice against him." "You demand it, do you?
My God, what next ?" "That is for you to say, monsieur." It surprised the great gentleman into a more or less successful effort of self-control.
"Let me warn you," said he, acidly, "that it is not wise to make wild accusations against a nobleman.

That, in itself, is a punishable offence, as you may learn.

Now listen to me.

In this matter of Mabey--assuming your statement of it to be exact--the gamekeeper may have exceeded his duty; but by so little that it is hardly worth comment.
Consider, however, that in any case it is not a matter for the King's Lieutenant, or for any court but the seigneurial court of M.de La Tour d'Azyr himself.