"You?"
"Yes,—I!"
"You?" said Martial, making a violent effort over himself; "you?"
"You'll beat me, too, I suppose,—won't you?"
"No; but, if you speak to me unkindly of La Louve, I'll give Nicholas a hiding he shall long remember. So now, mind! It is his affair as well as yours."
"You?" exclaimed the ruffian, rising, and drawing his dangerous Spanish knife; "you give me a hiding?"
The Brigand dashed at his brother.
Original Etching by Adrian Marcel.