Will your eminence please read and examine?”
“I am acquainted with it.”
“Sign it, then.”
“Reflect, gentlemen, that a signature given under circumstances like the present might be regarded as extorted by violence.”
“Monseigneur will be at hand to testify that it was freely given.”
“Suppose I refuse?”
“Then,” said D’Artagnan, “your eminence must expect the consequences of a refusal.”
“Would you dare to touch a cardinal?”
“You have dared, my lord, to imprison her majesty’s musketeers.”