Have you anything to say, I beg, why I should not begin with you?
Or do you wish to return to the Church ?" Louis shrugged his shoulders as in contempt, and held his peace, I saw his captor's great hands twitch convulsively at this, but still the Vidame mastered himself, and when he spoke again he spoke slowly.
"Very well," he continued, taking no heed of us, the silent witnesses of this strange struggle between the two men, but eyeing Louis only.
"You have wronged me more than any man alive.

Alive or dead! or dead! You have thwarted me, M.de Pavannes, and taken from me the woman I loved.

Six days ago I might have killed you.

I had it in my power.

I had but to leave you to the rabble, remember, and you would have been rotting at Montfaucon to-day, M.de Pavannes." "That is true," said Louis quietly.