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"Your answer, sir, is characteristic of a fanfarron. He who promises most does not always fulfil most." I stared at him in amazement. "Shall I promise you something, Vicomte? Mortdieu! If you seek to pick a quarrel with me " "God forbid!" he ejaculated, turning colour. And his suddenly awakened apprehensions swept aside the affectation that hitherto had marked his speech and manner.
Off with your hat, sir!" he blazed, stamping his foot, and going from pale to crimson. "Off with your hat, or Mortdieu, I'll have you flung out of doors by my grooms." This show of vehemence, as sudden as it was unexpected, drew from Eugene a meek obedience that I had not looked for. Nevertheless, the young man's lip curled as he uncovered. "How fatherly is your greeting!" he sneered.
"Dwell in town, take your ease in your inn, wear gold lace, stake the skins of all the deer in Virginia, drink Burgundy and Champagne, but lay no more arrows athwart the threshold of a gentleman's door." Hugon's lips twitched into a tigerish grimace. "So he found the arrow? Mortdieu! let him look to it that one day the arrow find not him!"
The elder person, at the same moment, hallooed to him to beware, adding, in a lower tone, to his companion, "Mortdieu gossip you have made another mistake this is not the Bohemian chatterer." But the intimation to the youth came too late. He either did not hear or could not profit by it, being already in the deep stream.
I sat up in bed tingling with excitement at the developments which already I saw arising from his last night's imprudence. "Calmly, Andrea," I begged of him, "tell me calmly." "Mortdieu! How can I be calm? Ough! The thought of it chokes me. I was a fool last night a sot. For that, perchance, men have some right to censure me.
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