He stood before it, and seeing his reflection he beat the glass into a thousand fragments. Jehan appeared, white and trembling, carrying his master's candlestick. "Ah!" cried the marquis.
"'Tis you.
Jehan, call your master a fool." "I, Monsieur ?" Jehan retreated. "Aye; or I promise to beat your worthless body within an inch of death. Call me a fool, whose wrath, over-leaped his prudence and sense of truth and honor.
Call me a fool." "Oh!" "Quickly!" The cane rose. "God forgive me this disrespect!.
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