I do not speak to you thus without good reason.

The police keep this arrondissement under strict surveillance; they have an agent in that little hole of Arcis expressly to protect the Imperial senator Malin against your attacks.

He is afraid of you, and says so openly." "It is a calumny!" cried the younger Simeuse.
"A calumny,--I am sure of it myself, but will the public believe it?
Michu certainly did aim at the senator, who does not forget the danger he was in; and since your return the countess has taken Michu into her service.

To many persons, in fact to the majority, Malin will seem to be in the right.

You do not understand how delicate the position of an _emigre_ is towards those who are now in possession of his property.