I will not take you unready for your task, in order to cast you into the crucible of my own desires, of my caprice, or my ambition.

Let it be all or nothing.

You are chilled and galled, sick at heart, overcome by excess of the emotions which but one hour's liberty has produced in you.

For me, that is a certain and unmistakable sign that you do not wish to continue at liberty.

Would you prefer a more humble life, a life more suited to your strength?
Heaven is my witness, that I wish your happiness to be the result of the trial to which I have exposed you." "Speak, speak," said the prince, with a vivacity which did not escape Aramis.
"I know," resumed the prelate, "in the Bas-Poitou, a canton, of which no one in France suspects the existence.