"On guard, Monsieur le Marquis!" "Patience! patience!" Florimond implored him.

"You shall have your way with me, I promise you.

But of your charity, messieurs, tell me first the name of that man." "It was Garnache," said Fortunio, "and if the information will serve you, it was I who slew him." "You ?" cried Florimond.

"Tell me of it, I beg you." "Do you fool us ?" questioned Marius in a rage that overmastered his astonishment, his growing suspicion that here all was not quite as it seemed.
"Fool you?
But no.

I do but wish to show you something that I learned in Italy.