"Everything has its good and evil side; if the happiness of being the savior of a country is lost, the honor of being a martyr to its cause is gained."
"But remember, in facilitating your access to the regent, I become your accomplice."
"Does that frighten you, monseigneur?"
"Certainly, for you being arrested—"
"Well—I being arrested?"
"They may force from you, by means of tortures, the names of those—"
Gaston's reply was a smile of supreme disdain.
"You are a foreigner and a Spaniard, monseigneur," said he, "and do not know what a French gentleman is, therefore I pardon you."
"Then I may reckon on your silence?"
"Pontcalec, Du Couëdic, Talhouet, and Montlouis, doubted me for an instant, and have since apologized to me for doing so."