"I won't pay my fine, and I won't go."
"Then I shall call a couple of archers and commit you to prison until you do pay it."
"That's all I ask."
The judge summoned two guards:—
"Take this scoundrel to the Grands-Carmes!"
"The Grands-Carmes!" cried Jacques; "why not the Châtelet, pray?"
"Because the Châtelet is not a debtor's prison, my friend; because the Châtelet is a royal fortress, and one must have committed some heinous crime to be sent there. The Châtelet! Ah! yes, my little fellow, you'll get to the Châtelet soon enough, just wait!"
"One moment," said Aubry, "one moment."
"What is it?"
"If I am not to be sent to the Châtelet, I will pay."