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As a lawyer you should not need to be told so much."
"As a lawyer, I am prepared to argue the point. But, as a lawyer
I also realize that if that case were prosecuted, it could only end
in the unjust punishment of a wretched gamekeeper, who did no more
than carry out his orders, but who none the less would now be made
a scapegoat, if scapegoat were necessary. I am not concerned to
hang Benet on the gallows earned by M. de La Tour d'Azyr."
M. de Lesdiguieres smote the table violently. "My God!" he cried
out, to add more quietly, on a note of menace, "You are singularly
insolent, my man."
"That is not my intention, sir, I assure you. I am a lawyer,
pleading a case - the case of M. de Vilmorin. It is for his
assassination that I have come to beg the King's justice."
"But you yourself have said that it was a duel!" cried the
Lieutenant, between anger and bewilderment.
"I have said that it was made to appear a duel. There is a
distinction, as I shall show, if you will condescend to hear me out."
"Take your own time, sir!" said the ironical M.


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