"Is not the fact enough?
Is it not enough that Blaise is dead, and that I have had a narrow escape, at his hands ?" "Insolent hound that he is!" put in Madame la Marquise--a fleshly lady monstrously coiffed.

"If we allow such men as thus to live in France our days are numbered." "They say that you are going to hang him," said Suzanne, heedless of her mother's words, and there was the faintest note of horror in her voice.
"They are mistaken.

I am not." "You are not ?" cried the Marquise.

"But what, then, do you intend to do ?" "To keep my word, madame," he answered her.

"I promised that canaille that if he ever came within the grounds of Bellecour I would have him flogged to death.