"Recalled?
And for what?
That they may assist you in obtaining charge of a wretched girl who is so headstrong as to wish to marry other than her guardians have determined.

A pretty affair that, as God's my life! And for the adjustment of such a family dispute as this, a whole province is to go to ruin, a conflagration of rebellion is to spread unquenched?
On my soul, sir, I begin to think that this mission of yours has served to turn your head.

You begin to see it out of all proportion to its size." "Monsieur, it may have turned my head, or it may not; but I shall not be amazed if in the end it be the means of losing you yours.

Tell me now: What is the disturbance you speak of in Montelimar ?" That was a question all Tressan's ingenuity could not answer.
"What affair is it of yours ?" he demanded.

"Are you Seneschal of Dauphiny, or am I?
If I tell you that there is a disturbance, let that suffice.