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With mischief-makers like Champernoun in every city, and with such diplomatists at Ostend as Croft and Ropers and Valentine Dale, was it wonderful that the King and the Duke of Parma found time to mature their plans for the destruction of both countries? Lord Willoughby, too, was extremely dissatisfied with his own position. He received no commission from the Queen for several months.
"'Twill be a great night for our Lord Christ and our Lord King." "And his lord the Devil," said Champernoun. "What madness has taken your good France? These are Spanish manners, and they sicken me. Cockades and signals and such-like flummery!" The other's face had grown sober. "For certain hell is afoot to-night. It is the Admiral they seek.
They would have killed me, had not the good Father Antoine held them till I made off." "Who leads them?" Gaspard asked, having a premonition. "A tall man in crimson with a broken plume." "How many?" "Maybe a hundred, and at least half are men-at-arms." Gaspard turned to Champernoun. "We have found our quarry," he said.
She was a Champernoun, proudest of Norman squires, and could probably boast of having in her veins the blood of Courtneys, Emperors of Byzant.
He flitted like a bat towards Gaspard and Champernoun and peered up at them. His face was lean and wolfish, with cruel arrogant eyes. "Hail, father!" said Gaspard in Spanish. "How goes the good work?" He replied in the same tongue. "Bravely, my children. But this is but the beginning. Are you girt and ready for the harvesting?" "We are ready," said Gaspard.
With mischief-makers like Champernoun in every city, and with such diplomatists at Ostend as Croft and Ropers and Valentine Dale, was it wonderful that the King and the Duke of Parma found time to mature their plans for the destruction of both countries? Lord Willoughby, too, was extremely dissatisfied with his own position. He received no commission from the Queen for several months.
"Albeit what is once executed cannot be prevented," said Captain Champernoun; "yet 'tis thought certain that if the resignation of Lord Leicester's commission had been deferred yet some little time; the whole country and towns would have so revolted and mutinied against the government and authority of the States, as that they should have had no more credit given them by the people than pleased her Majesty.
"Albeit what is once executed cannot be prevented," said Captain Champernoun; "yet 'tis thought certain that if the resignation of Lord Leicester's commission had been deferred yet some little time; the whole country and towns would have so revolted and mutinied against the government and authority of the States, as that they should have had no more credit given them by the people than pleased her Majesty.
Farewell, my little grey dwelling." Champernoun laid a kindly hand on his shoulder. "We will find you the mate of it in Devon, old friend," he said. But Gaspard was not listening. "Eaucourt by the waters," he repeated like the refrain of a song, and his eyes were full of tears.
Gaspard was by his side, while Champernoun a pace behind was abreast the minister. "To see the completion of the good work begun this morning." "You have come the right road. I go to kindle the north to a holy emulation. That heretic dog behind is a Picard, and I bring him to Amiens that he may perish there as a warning to his countrymen."
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