"Le
Gardeur has too many loose ends of respectability hanging about him
to make him a sure hold for our game."
"Just so! Cadet, Varin, and the rest of you, have only half
haltered the young colt. His training so far is no credit to you!
The way that cool bully, Colonel Philibert, walked off with him out
of Beaumanoir, was a sublime specimen of impudence. Ha! Ha! The
recollection of it has salted my meat ever since! It was admirably
performed! although, egad, I should have liked to run my sword
through Philibert's ribs! and not one of you all was man enough to
do it for me!"
"But your Excellency gave no hint, you seemed full of politeness
towards Philibert," replied De Pean, with a tone that implied he
would have done it had Bigot given the hint.
"Zounds! as if I do not know it! But it was provoking to be
flouted, so politely too, by that whelp of the Golden Dog! The
influence of that Philibert is immense over young De Repentigny.
They say he once pulled him out of the water, and is, moreover, a
suitor of the sister, a charming girl, De Pean! with no end of
money, lands, and family power.
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