\"And on whose behalf,\" he said, \"do you wish to do this?\"
M. Riviere met the question sturdily. \"Well—I might say HERS, if it did not sound like a liberty. Shall I say instead: on behalf of abstract justice?\"
Archer considered him ironically. \"In other words: you are Count Olenski's messenger?\"
He saw his blush more darkly reflected in M. Riviere's sallow countenance. \"Not to YOU, Monsieur. If I come to you, it is on quite other grounds.\"
\"And on whose behalf,\" he said, \"do you wish to do this?\"
M. Riviere met the question sturdily. \"Well—I might say HERS, if it did not sound like a liberty. Shall I say instead: on behalf of abstract justice?\"
Archer considered him ironically. \"In other words: you are Count Olenski's messenger?\"
He saw his blush more darkly reflected in M. Riviere's sallow countenance. \"Not to YOU, Monsieur. If I come to you, it is on quite other grounds.\"
