That is neither difficult nor dangerous." "It will be difficult for you, Armand, because your head is not sufficiently cool to foresee serious eventualities and to prepare against them.

It is dangerous, because you are a man in love, and a man in love is apt to run his head--and that of his friends--blindly into a noose." "Who told you that I was in love ?" "You yourself, my good fellow.

Had you not told me so at the outset," he continued, still speaking very quietly and deliberately and never raising his voice, "I would even now be standing over you, dog-whip in hand, to thrash you as a defaulting coward and a perjurer ....

Bah!" he added with a return to his habitual bonhomie, "I would no doubt even have lost my temper with you.

Which would have been purposeless and excessively bad form.