We are two foxes in a flock of angry roosters, and by the Lord's grace we will take our toll of them.

Cunning, my friend.

A stratagem of war! We stand outside this welter and, having only the cold passion of revenge, can think coolly.

God's truth, man, have we fought the Indian and the Spaniard for nothing?
Wily is the word.

| Are we two gentlemen, who fear God, to be worsted by a rabble of Papegots and Marannes ?" It was the word "Marannes," or, as we say, "halfcastes," which brought conviction to Gaspard.