I have not come so far and so successfully to be beaten now.

Still," he continued, "if you think that I overrate my strength or my resource, if you would sooner that I sought men and made an assault upon Condillac, endeavouring to carry it and to let the Queen's will prevail by force of arms, tell me so, and I am gone tomorrow." "Whither would you go ?" she cried, her voice strained with sudden affright.
"I might seek help at Lyons or Moulins.

I might find loyal soldiers who would be willing to follow me by virtue of my warrant to levy such help as I may require, if I but tell them that the help was refused me in Grenoble.

I am not sure that it would be so, for, unfortunately, my warrant is for the Seneschal of Dauphiny only.

Still, I might make the attempt." "No, no," she implored him, and in her eagerness to have him put all thought of leaving her from his mind, she caught him by the arm and raised a pleading face to his.