"Believe me, I have the will, all the will, to help you.

And the terms are not mine.

Only I would have you remember this, Messer Blondel: that others may do what you will not, so that after all you may find that you have cast life away, and no one the better.

Baudichon, for instance, plays the Brutus in public.

But he is a fearful man, and a timid; and to save himself and his family--he thinks much of his family--he would do what you will not." "He would do it!" the Syndic cried passionately.