"The affair would not have turned out as it did."
"Would you have defended him against the Swiss with whom he got into a quarrel?"
"I would have defended him against every one."
"So that he would not have been killed?"
"Either that, or I should have got myself killed along with him."
"At all events, you were not there, so that the poor devil breathed his last in an obscure tavern, and in doing so pronounced Dom Modeste's name; is not that so?"
"Yes."
"Whereupon the people there informed Dom Modeste of it?"
"A man, seemingly scared out of his wits, who threw the whole convent into consternation."
"And Dom Modeste sent for his litter, and hastened to 'La Corne d'Abondance.'"