My heart was water!
Grégoire
Ah, poltroon; your heart!
Third Lackey (making play with a broken stick)
Our baron’s a swordsman! His rapier flashed!
First Lackey
Keen as the blade of the Sieur de Morbec!
—And that is a saying old as the sea!
Second Lackey
Hard as the heart of the Sieur de Morbec!