“You shall not have them, excepting on that condition, count.”
“Oh! I shall, perhaps, find some mode of compiling you to return them.”
“I know not any,” coldly replied Paul.
“Will you, sir, deliver those letters to me!”
“Count,” replied Paul, with an expression of countenance, which, under the circumstances, was perfectly inexplicable to Emanuel, “count, listen to me?”
“Will you return me those letters, sir?”
“Count—”
“Yes, or no!”
“No!” said Paul, calmly.
“Well then, sir, you wear a sword, as I do; we are both gentlemen, or rather I would believe you to be such; let us leave the house together, and one of us shall return alone, and he, being unfettered and powerful from the death of the other, shall then do as he best pleases.”