Let me be frank with you.

I have often envied your success in Paris; and there were times when this envy was not unmixed with hate.

But a catastrophe like that to-night wipes out such petty things as envy and hate." "Take care, Monsieur," said Victor haughtily.

He believed that he caught an undercurrent of raillery.
"Why, Monsieur, what have I said ?" looking from one to the other.
"Proceed, Vicomte," said the Chevalier, motioning Victor to be quiet.
He was curious to learn what the vicomte had to say.
"To continue, then: you are a man of extraordinary courage, and I have always admired you even while I envied you.

To-night I lost to you some fifty pistoles.