You forget that you are north of the Loire, and that priests are not to be massacred here with impunity, as in your lawless south-country.

However, enough.

The night is cold, and M.d'Agen grows suspicious as well as impatient.

We have, perhaps, spoken too long already.

Permit me--he bowed and drew back a step--'to resume this discussion to-morrow.' Despite his politeness and the hollow civility with which he thus sought; to close the interview, the light of triumph which shone in his eyes, as the glare of the torch fell athwart them, no less than the assured tone of his voice, told me clearly that he knew his power.
He seemed, indeed, transformed: no longer a slinking, peaceful clerk, preying on a woman's fears, but a bold and crafty schemer, skilled and unscrupulous, possessed of hidden knowledge and hidden resources; the personification of evil intellect.