Think you I will set eyes again upon that dastard?
I am already resolved concerning him, but it entered my mind that it might please you to be the instrument of the law for me." "Me, Sire ?" "Aye, and why not?
They say you can play a very deadly sword upon necessity.

This is an occasion that demands an exception from our edict.
You have my sanction to send the Comte de Chatellerault a challenge.

And see that you kill him, Bardelys!" he continued viciously.

"For, by the Mass, if you don't, I will! If he escapes your sword, or if he survives such hurt as you may do him, the headsman shall have him.

Mordieu! is it for nothing that I am called Louis the Just ?" I stood in thought for a moment.