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When the liquor had begun to do its office, Querto showed signs of better cheer, nothing loth to have a companion. "It is not often that a poor gentleman hath even such refreshment as this," he said presently, after lighting a pipe of tobacco. The words were hardly courteous, but the speaker had not been bred in courtesy.
When that city was taken he followed his wife to France, from whence he is now come, bringing letters from her majesty to me." "By your leave, sir," answered Carteret, "your information lacks completeness. Querto by no means repaired from Exeter to France.
Sir George! be pleased to bring Major Querto into your assembly. And, I pray you, bid some one send me here Tom Elliott," added the King, in a more natural tone of voice. "A bientôt! Sir George." He waved his visitors out and resumed the care of his finger-ends, neglected in the excitement of the discussion. Carteret, accompanied by Major Querto, repaired to the mainland.
He found the ladies seated in a parlour on the ground floor, engaged in their usual employment of knitting. The room was small, but warm and snug. Under a pledge of secrecy, he told them in general terms that there was a plot to seize the king, but took care not to mention the names either of Querto or Benoist. Meanwhile the council having broken up for the day, the king retired to his chamber.
"I can be the major's warrant," answered Charles. "He was a trooper in Goring's horse, and rose by reason of his wife being chosen to nurse my mother's last-born infant at Exeter. When her majesty retired into France, Querto, raised to be a commissioned officer, remained in Exeter.
Lempriere were walking home together, and a warning was uttered in your ears?" "Was it thou that played the raven? Didst thou think that we were of your side?" "Of my side, quotha. Why, man, do you think me one to take sides? O, lord Sir, sides are for the quality. Dick Querto is of his own side, no other.
Major Querto stood by with the air of an indispensable umpire. The escrime of those days had not attained its later refinements. The combatants were placed opposite to each other, each flinging a cloak about his left arm, to serve as a shield, and they prepared to encounter in what would seem a fashion of "rough-and-tumble" to our modern masters. Both were brave men, and in the bloom of manhood.
Alain gave Rose one encouraging look and went out alone and unarmed to meet Querto and a number of peasants, most of whom he recognised as belonging to his own company of the parish militia. "What is it, neighbours?" he said, taking no notice of the major, and speaking the local dialect. "Why, this gentleman hath brought us here to seize a spy," said one of them our old acquaintance Le Gros.
"M. le Lieutenant-Bailly, and Messieurs les Etats!" he said, "I have called you together to consider a message from the Queen: this gentleman here will impart it to you, Major Querto, of his Majesty's army." The Major's face assumed the colour of his nose.
Hearing from Querto who was connected with the family that Elliot was unquestionably a married man, he had only done his duty in warning Rose and her sister against the groom of the chamber. He would not admit to himself that jealousy had influenced him in so doing. As Lempriere's agent, as the old friend of the family, he could not have done otherwise.
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