"Your answer, lad ?" "I refuse." "Don't be a fool," roared Sir Gervaise bluntly.
"I refuse, I repeat," said Marteau.

"While the Emperor lives I am his man.

Not rank, not money, not friendship, not love itself even could move me.

Enough, gentlemen," he continued imperiously as the two Russians and the Englishman all began to speak at once.

"No more.
Such propositions are insults." "There is another appeal which ought to be brought to your attention, young sir," said the second Russian officer when he could be heard.
"And what is that ?" "Your life.