human
Pierre, I am on the campaign against your namesake!
gpt
Then you have heard the latest news?
human
Not if it is fresh to-day.
gpt
An hour old. There has been a second duel between our Louis and Lecour. What a pity!
human
A pity? it is an infernal outrage! Another duel? Oh, my God!
gpt
Lecour became impatient----
human
And exclaimed among his companions that _Léry_----
gpt
Curse his insolence!
human
That _Léry's_ family were skin-merchants.
gpt
The pig and scoundrel! he shall sting for this. Why do you hold yourself so calm, Répentigny, when your family is insulted?
human
Frankly, because it is not altogether untrue.
gpt
I have, Michel, seen the ways of many peoples. I have learned to look on the castes of our Canada with the same eyes as I look on those of India, the eyes of amusement, for I find in mankind everywhere the same tendencies and the same pretensions.
human
But this beast of a Lecour is a liar and impostor.
gpt
Both.
human
Then I will show you your duty. Open this envelope. You have only to fill Lecour's name into the warrant it contains, and he goes under lock and key in the Bastille.
gpt
I cannot.
human
Why?
gpt
He is a brave man.
human
Tut, you madden me, Pierre. The worst felons are bold.
gpt
But not generous. Lecour saved Louis's life from the blade of a madman at this duel. I know too well how that madman would have thrust. We are both mad--he and I, pursuer and pursued--I have brought it down on both. Poor Louis! have I pulled down the wrath of God also upon you? What is this, Michel, that you have brought? Consider what you ask me to do? To think that any man of our free colony would use a _lettre de cachet_, and against a brother Canadian! The thing is damnable,
human
Pierre, you are a cursed fool!