"It was infamous," grumbled Démocharès.
"A bad failure, Monsieur le Grand Inquisiteur de la Foi, a bad failure!" repeated Monsieur de Braguelonne, with much complacency.
"Well," cried Démocharès, impatiently, "if the affair did miscarry, it was all your fault!"
"What, my fault!" ejaculated the amazed lieutenant.
"To be sure. You content yourself with reports and retractations, and such nonsense. Of what consequence are these repulses and contradictions? We must go ahead all the same, and boldly accuse the villains as if we had met no rebuff at all."
"What! without proofs?"
"Yes, and convict them."
"When they have committed no crime?"
"Yes, and hang them."
"Without judges?"