"You first, Pasquini.

And you next, de Goncourt?
And at the end, de Villehardouin ?" Each nodded in turn and Pasquini and I prepared to step aside.
"Since you are in haste," Henry Bohemond proposed to me, "and since there are three of them and three of us, why not settle it at the one time ?" "Yes, yes," was Lanfranc's eager cry.

"Do you take de Goncourt.

De Villehardouin for mine." But I waved my good friends back.
"They are here by command," I explained.

"It is I they desire so strongly that by my faith I have caught the contagion of their desire, so that now I want them and will have them for myself." I had observed that Pasquini fretted at my delay of speech-making, and I resolved to fret him further.
"You, Pasquini," I announced, "I shall settle with in short account.