My intention in going had been simply to say, 'I bring you this paper, of which some one else might have taken an undue advantage.

I have done you a service; lend me a hundred francs.' This is what I meant to say, but his behavior irritated me, and I answered,-- "'No, I want two thousand francs.' "He opened a drawer, drew out a bundle of banknotes, and threw them in my face.
"'Pay yourself, you villain!' said he.
"I can, I fear, never make you understand what I felt at this undeserved insult.

I was not myself, and Heaven knows that I was not responsible for any crime that I might have committed in the frenzy of the moment, and I was nearly doing so.

That man will, perhaps, never see death so near him, save at his last hour.

On his writing table lay one of those Catalan daggers, which he evidently used as a paper-cutter.