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He has been fighting, but not with intent to kill.

He held the life of Count Jean de Mezy on the point of his sword, but gave it back to him, such as it was." The deep eyes of the priest smoldered.

Perhaps there was a distant and fiery youth of his own that the morning's deed recalled, but his menacing gaze relaxed.
"If you gave him back his life when you could have taken it, you have done well," he said.

"As the hunter intimates, it is a life of little value, perhaps none at all, but you did not on that account have any right to take it.