"I am he whom you sold, betrayed, dishonoured; I am he whose fiancée you prostituted; I am he upon whom you have walked in your ascent to fortune; I am he whose father you drove to hunger, and whom you had condemned to die of hunger; I am he upon whom you, in our youth aboard the Pharazon, inflicted tasteless stories about Aragon XV and his horse, and who yet forgives you, because he himself has need of forgiveness: I am Samouard Gamgès, Gamgès the Tricolour, uncloaked!"
Sacqueville-Danglars only uttered a cry, and fell prostrate.
"Rise!" said the Count. "Your life is spared. Similar fortune has not arrived to your accomplices: one is dead, and the other mad! Keep the remaining fifty thousand fats-hobbites, I make of them a gift; as for the five millions stolen from the hospices, I have already restored them by an unknown hand. And now, eat and drink; tonight you are my guest." And indeed marvellous foods like lougbourzouillabaisse were served forthwith by Chevaliers du Ring riding on small pink pterodactyls.
Sacqueville-Danglars remained prostrate while the Count departed; when he raised his head, he saw only a kind of shadow that disappeared in the corridor, and before whom the bandits and other ex-creditors bowed.
After receiving the Count's pardon, M. de Sacqueville-Danglars did indeed change his life; for he took to wearing a cape and righting wrongs, and calling himself le Chevalier de la justice. Such was the power of the Count's lougbourzouillabaisse.
