"How's the love affair ?" "Damn you, hold your tongue!" I said.
He looked at me for a moment, then he lit his pipe.

It was quite true that I was in a bad temper, and I went on perversely: "Wherever I go, I'm dodged by half a dozen fellows." "I know you are; I send 'em," he replied composedly.
"What for ?" "Well," said Sapt, puffing away, "it wouldn't be exactly inconvenient for Black Michael if you disappeared.

With you gone, the old game that we stopped would be played--or he'd have a shot at it." "I can take care of myself." "De Gautet, Bersonin, and Detchard are in Strelsau; and any one of them, lad, would cut your throat as readily--as readily as I would Black Michael's, and a deal more treacherously.

What's the letter ?" I opened it and read it aloud: "If the King desires to know what it deeply concerns the King to know, let him do as this letter bids him.

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