10/33 I recalled the old proverb which says that when thieves fall out, honest men come by their own, and speculated on the chance of the priest freeing us once for all from M. The Vidame could have taken up the other with one hand and dashed his head on the floor. I doubt if in craft the priest was his equal. Behind a frank brutality Bezers--unless his reputation belied him--concealed an Italian intellect. |