The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Perhaps you may know at some future period, and in the mean time
I request you to excuse my declining to put you in possession of my
reasons."

"Well, I will have Franz and Chateau-Renaud; they will be the very men
for it."

"Do so, then."

"But if I do fight, you will surely not object to giving me a lesson or
two in shooting and fencing?"

"That, too, is impossible."

"What a singular being you are!--you will not interfere in anything."

"You are right--that is the principle on which I wish to act."