at the bottom of his heart, for some one to step between him and the wrath he felt he had carried him too far.
“Manicamp, you are a brave man, and the king will appreciate your conduct; but to wish to serve your friends too well, is to destroy them. Manicamp, you know the name the king asks you for?”
“It is perfectly true — I do know it.”
“You will give it up then?”
“If I felt I ought to have mentioned it, I should have already done so.”
“Then I will tell it, for I am not so extremely sensitive on such points of honor as you are.”
“You are at liberty to do so, but it seems to me, however —