But you can manage him, mademoiselle; besides, you have much interest in having the matter settled." "Counsellor!" "There is no use in beating about the bush.

I come to you humbly enough, and you treat me like so much dirt.

I will not submit to this, as you will find to your cost.

_I_ never poisoned any one; but enough of this kind of thing.

To-day is Tuesday; if on Friday, by six o'clock, I do not have what I have asked for, your father and the Count Octave will have a letter from me, and perhaps your fine marriage may come to nothing after all." This insolence absolutely struck Diana dumb, and Daumon had disappeared round a turning of the road before she could find words to crush him for his vile attempt at extortion.