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The place had become a shambles, though here and there were little knots of Christaudins fighting for their lives. Again and again I strove to cut a way through, but it was impossible. For a moment, however, we found a breathing space. For one little moment the mob gave way and left us, and it was then that I saw Ferrières. He had become detached from us, and was alone.
Antoine haunted the King, and that he and the Queen were, in secret, heretics. At the last acquittal the cruel mob of Paris had actually dared to parade the streets, with angry cries at being deprived of the hideous spectacle of an expiation. "Au feu, au feu! Death to the Christaudins!" I still seem to hear their voices.
"'I will not forget. Well, what did these gentlemen say? "'Amongst other things, that your Majesty would totally cancel the edicts you have suspended, and freely pardon all the Christaudins. "I had risked my shot, and now awaited the result. It had hit its mark, I knew, for the King began to hum and haw, and Diane gave me a look from those blue-black eyes of hers.
But in the business of summoning Carlat Mademoiselle de Vrillac's steward and major-domo he lost the contemptuous "Christaudins!" that hissed from a footboy's lips, and the "Southern dogs!" that died in the moustachios of a bully in the livery of the King's brother.
De Mouchy laughed again as he went on: "You agree eh? Well, listen to the names Huguenots Christaudins Spawn of Geneva whose bodies shall perish as their souls, and whose goods shall come to the righteous that is, to me, Titi."
Still La Mothe went on unmoved, though uneasy looks were beginning to be exchanged; but at last he too stopped, for the murmurs had swelled to one long roar of savage fury, and the words of the mob reached us distinctly. "To the fire with them! Death to the Christaudins!"
His lips grew livid, and twice the question was repeated ere he forced himself to answer. "Yes." I held my breath and listened. What did this mean? Ferrières still lay back in his semi-trance, oblivious of all things; but mademoiselle moved forward and looked at De Ganache, ineffable pity in her eyes. And now came the next question. "They are known to you as Christaudins?"
All that was ill was loose in the land, and though Montpensier from the north and Montluc from the south struck with heavy hands, the Christaudins or Huguenots, as they called them held all the country from the chalks of Châtellerault to Saumur, and from Fontenaye to Thouars and La Mothe St. Héraye.
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