"What have you done to the son? Come, tell me."
"Why, it seems I have helped some one to take his mistress from him."
"You confess it, then?"
"I cannot help confessing it, for it is true."
"In that case, you are wrong; and if he were to kill you, he would be acting perfectly right."
"Ah! that is your majesty's way of reasoning, then!"
"Do you think it a bad way?"
Athos broke his sword across his knee, slowly placed the two pieces upon the floor, and saluting the king, who was almost
choking from rage and shame, he quitted the cabinet.—Page [263].