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220, bluntly gave him his dismissal, his effrontery soon resumed its way:—

"Bless me, Count!" he exclaimed banteringly, "you think our relations will stop there! No, indeed! You will not so soon have done with me. A man knows plenty of things, who has not had his eyes and ears in his pocket."

"Low wretch!" exclaimed Kehlmark, staring steadily and imperiously at the rascal, who had thought to intimidate him, and making him to lower his eyes. "Get out! I don't care a jot for your plots. Know, however, that for the least defamation aimed at us, at myself or at the beings dear to me, I will make you responsible, and have you dragged up before the law-courts."

Then, as the varlet contracted his lips to vomit forth some unclean word, Kehlmark, with a sudden movement, thrust him outside head foremost, choking the insult down his throat.

Having packed his belongings, Landrillon, white with rage and breathing out vengeance, rejoined Blandine, flattering himself with the idea that he would be able to get back his own out of her and terrorise her for both.