Moreover," said Bigot,
frankly, for he felt he owed his safety to the interference of the
Bourgeois, "it would be unfair not to acknowledge that he did what
he could to protect us from the rabble. I charge Philibert with
sowing the sedition that caused the riot, not with rioting himself."
"But I accuse him of both, and of all the mob has done!" thundered
Varin, enraged to hear the Intendant speak with moderation and
justice. "The house of the Golden Dog is a den of traitors; it
ought to be pulled down, and its stones built into a monument of
infamy over its owner, hung like a dog in the market-place."
"Silence, Varin!" exclaimed the Governor sternly. "I will not hear
the Sieur Philibert spoken of in these injurious terms. The
Intendant does not charge him with this disturbance; neither shall
you."
"Par Dieu! you shall not, Varin!" burst in La Corne St. Luc, roused
to unusual wrath by the opprobrium heaped upon his friend the
Bourgeois; "and you shall answer to me for that you have said!"
"La Corne! La Corne!" The Governor saw a challenge impending, and
interposed with vehemence.
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