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Can I leave them, without a word of warning, to the torture, to the rack, to the slow death of the estrapade?" She stopped, her eyes all alight, her breath coming fast; but I made no answer, and stood before her in silence. "You have nothing to say," she went on "nothing! Orrain, were you in my place what would you do?" "I am a man." "And is honour less dear to a woman than to a man?"
"Aye," she cried, starting up, "he swore M. de Mar should suffer the preparatory and the previous, the estrapade and the brodekins!" "He dare not," the king shouted. "Mordieu, he dare not!" "Sire," she cried, "you can promise him that for every blow he strikes Étienne de Mar you will strike me two. Mar is in his hands, but I am in yours. For M. de Mar, unhurt, you will deliver him me, unhurt.
It would take Sotillo a day to give me the estrapade, and try some other things perhaps, before he puts a bullet through my heart as he did to that poor wretch here. Why not?" The doctor swallowed with difficulty. His throat had gone dry in a moment. It was not from indignation. The doctor, pathetically enough, believed that he had forfeited the right to be indignant with any one for anything.
"Have you brought the fifteen thousand francs?" "No, but I have them at home." "Why not have them in your pocket?" asked Cerizet, sharply. "I'll tell you," replied Theodose, who, as he walked from the rue Saint-Dominique to the Estrapade, had decided on his course of action.
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