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I had seen these signs before, and knew them, and I might have cried 'Chicken-heart! in my turn; but I had not made a way of escape for him before I declared myself for nothing, and I held to my purpose. 'I think you will allow now, I said grimly, 'that it will not harm me even if I put up with a blow! 'M. de Berault's courage is known, he muttered. 'And with reason, I said.
'Marked cards! There were a score round us when the fool, little knowing the man with whom he had to deal, and as little how to lose like a gentleman, flung the words in my teeth. He thought, I'll be sworn, that I should storm and swear and ruffle it like any common cock of the hackle. But that was never Gil de Berault's way. For a few seconds after he had spoken I did not even look at him.
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