It is a question of you and what you are doing here.

You need not make any threats against me.
I care for none of them, but Bernardo Galvez, the Governor General at New Orleans, shall know of what is passing at Beaulieu." The face of Alvarez contracted into a terrible frown.

Nevertheless he feared the unarmed priest.

He was helpless against him and he feared, too, that if he persisted Father Montigny would quickly learn of other and deeper matters.

He broke into a short and by no means hearty laugh.
"Perhaps I was going rather far," he said, "but this youth has provoked me beyond endurance.