It went off and----" "You damned low-born coward," gritted out the English officer, stepping toward him furious with anger.
"Steady, Frank.

There is something strange about this," said Sir Gervaise gloomily, catching his son by the arm.

"He is no coward.
That I'll warrant." "But to seek entry into a woman's bed-chamber!" continued Frank furiously.

"If you were a gentleman I'd----" "That 'almost,'" said Marteau, "saves me in this instance." "I feel this action almost as if it had been my own son, had God blessed me with one," said the old Marquis, slowly recovering his self-command.

"A loyal Marteau, a thief, a despoiler of women! Why, she knelt to you in the hall.