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Meantime he returned to the siege of Dreux, made an assault on the place, was repulsed, and then hung nine prisoners of war in full sight of the garrison as a punishment for their temerity in resisting him.
Madelon Dreux and her family recovered, owing to her their lives; and she was happier than before, thinking of them when she sat on the settle before the wood fire roasting chestnuts and spinning flax on the wheel, and ever and again watching the flame reflected on the fair head of Bernadou or in the dark, smiling eyes of Margot.
Coligny once more with difficulty, as at Dreux, saved the broken remnants of the defeated Huguenots. Conde's death, regarded at the time by the Huguenots as an irreparable calamity, proved in the end to be no serious loss; for it made room for the true head of the party, Henri of Navarre.
He had followed so many clues, his quest had been so long and fruitless, that he met disappointment half-way. Up to this moment Bernie Dreux had listened without a word or movement, but now he stirred and inquired, hesitatingly: "Pardon me, but what is this Pallozzo gang and who are the Quatrones? I'm tremendously interested in this affair."
"I'll murder him!" exclaimed Dreux, with more savagery than his friend believed was in him. "Now, don't start all over again," Blake cautioned them. "You are mad about each other " "Nothing of the sort," declared Felicite. "At least Bernie worships you." The girl fell silent and beamed openly upon her lover. "Why don't you two end this sort of misunderstanding and marry?"
She flung her arms about his neck and lifted her blushing face to his, explaining to her half-brother, when she could: "I don't know what you'll do without some one to look after you, Bernie, but it's perfectly grand to elope." Dreux rose with a grin and winked at Norvin as he said: "Oh, don't mind me. I'll get along all right." And seizing his hat he rushed out with his thin face all ablaze.
She hated herself for taking pleasure in anything to be bestowed by a world so hap-hazard, ill-balanced, unjust; she took it bitterly, with such naturalness as not to be aware that it was irony and a poisonous irony moving her to welcome the restorative ceremony because her largeness of person had a greater than common need of the protection. That Mausoleum at Dreux may touch to lift us.
There he could laugh and not be ashamed. The forecourt was packed full of priests. All the superiors of the different Archdeaconries Chartres, Châteaudun, Nogent le Rotrou, and Dreux had left there, within the great gate, their following of parish priests and curés, who were pacing round and round the green circus of a grass plot.
He chose to trust his heart rather than his reason, and in truth something deep within him gave assurance that she was waiting, that she needed him and would welcome his coming. Mr. Bernard Dreux was regarded by his friends rather as an institution than as an individual.
He sent out orders to get the royal castles ready for defence. His emissaries were collecting troops in Flanders and Aquitaine. Philip Augustus's Count of Britanny, Peter of Dreux, was offered the honour of Richmond, which former counts had held, if he would come to John's aid with a body of knights.
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