He had no title to take up the affairs of Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye.

But he was past reason now, and he was not the man to brook haughtiness, however courteously it might be cloaked.

He eyed the Marquis's flushed ace across the board, and his lip curled.
"Monsieur," said he, "I take your meaning very fully.

Half a word with me is as good as a whole sentence with another.

You have dubbed me in polite phrases an impertinent.