|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: poor Vilmorin could not bear a vile lie with which you goaded him,
he struck you. Because you cannot bear an equally vile truth which
I have uttered, you strike me. But always is the vileness yours.
And now as then for the striker there is... " He broke off. "But
why name it? You will remember what there is. Yourself you wrote
it that day with the point of your too-ready sword. But there.
I will meet you if you desire it, monsieur."
"What else do you suppose that I desire? To talk?"
Andre-Louis turned to his friends and sighed. "So that I am to go
another jaunt to the Bois. Isaac, perhaps you will kindly have a
word with one of these friends of M. le Marquis', and arrange for
| 
