The captain licked his lips and pulled at his mustachios.

For all his vaunted scorn of being a butcher at a price, now that he heard the price he seemed not half so scornful.
"Tell me again the thing that you need doing and the manner of it," said he, as one who was moved to reconsider.

She told him, and when she had done he made a compromise.
"If I go upon this business, madame, I go not alone." "Oh, as for that," said Marius, "it shall be as you will.

Take what men you want with you." "And hang with them afterwards, maybe," he sneered, his insolence returning.

"The hundred pistoles would avail me little then.