"He shall have a caning then for his impertinence." And he called loudly to the post-boy for his whip.

But at that insult Garnache's brain seemed to take fire, and his cautious resolutions were reduced to ashes by the conflagration.

He stepped forward, and, virulent of tone and terrific of mien, he announced that since Monsieur Sanguinetti took that tone with him, he would cut his throat for him at once and wherever they should please.
At last it was arranged that they should proceed there and then to the Champs aux Capuchins, a half-mile away behind the Franciscan convent.
Accordingly they set out, Sanguinetti and Courthon going first, and Garnache following with Gaubert; the rear being brought up by a regiment of rabble, idlers and citizens, that must have represented a very considerable proportion of the population of Grenoble.

This audience heartened Garnache, to whom some measure of reflection had again returned.

Before such numbers it was unthinkable that these gentlemen--assuming them to be acting on behalf of Condillac--should dare to attempt foul measures with him.