But what would be an advantage to me would be dangerous to you.

It's easy to see from your jaundiced phiz that for you blood-letting is no cure." "And you would really go that length?
You would risk a duel if I refused to let you get to the bottom of my mystery ?" "Yes, on my honour! Well, how is it to be ?" "My dear boy," said de Jars to the youth, "we are caught, and may as well yield gracefully.

You don't know this big fellow as well as I do.
He's obstinacy itself.

You can make the most obstinate donkey go on by pulling its tail hard enough, but when Jeannin gets a notion into his pate, not all the legions of hell can get it out again.

Besides that, he's a skilful fencer, so there's nothing for it but to trust him." "Just as you like," said the young man; "you know all my circumstances and how important it is that my secret should be kept." "Oh! among Jeannin's many vices there are a few virtues, and of these discretion is the greatest, so that his curiosity is harmless.