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Berenger sought out Sidney, who smiled at his surprise. 'Do you not see, he said, 'that the King is your friend, and would be very glad to save the lady's lands from the Guisards, but that he cannot say so; he can only befriend a Huguenot by stealth. 'I would not be such a king for worlds! However, Eustacie was enchanted. It was like a prince and princess in Mere Perinne's fairy tales.
We escaped even now during the funeral of the Chevalier. 'By favour of which we are making our way to Parthenay unsuspected, though, by my faith, we gather so like a snowball, that we could be a match for a few hundreds of Guisards. Who is with you, M. de Ribaumont?
Louis XIII. entered in triumph, deprived the city of all its privileges, and thus in 1628 concluded the war that had begun by the attack of the Guisards on the congregation at Vassy, in 1561. The lives and properties of the Huguenots were still secure, but all favour was closed against them, and every encouragement held out to them to join the Church.
So, when M. Barbemouche and his troop of Guisards had gone some distance down the road, I came forth from the shed and followed them, afoot, keeping well to the roadside, ready to vanish, should any of them turn back. It was evident that Barbemouche had little or no hope of catching me on the road. His plan was to surprise me at my chateau, or to lie there in wait for me.
Captain Falconnet did his ally the honour to consult him on the expedience of molesting the Guisards by a sally, and trying to take some of their guns; but Berenger merely bowed to whatever he said, while he debated aloud the PROS and CONS, and at last decided that the garrison had been too much reduced for this, and that M. le Duc would prefer finding them drawn up in good order to receive him, to their going chasing and plundering disreputable among the enemy the Duke being here evidently a much greater personage than the King of Navarre, hereditary Governor of Guyenne though he were.
And as guisards and first-footers are now not much seen except in country places, when once the New Year has been rung in and proclaimed at the Tron railings, the festivities begin to find their way indoors and something like quiet returns upon the town. But think, in these piled lands, of all the senseless snorers, all the broken heads and empty pockets!
Then a grin of satisfaction appeared on his perspiring face, and he said: "Three Guisards less to shout 'Vive la messe. It's a pity we haven't time to exchange horses with these dead whelps of hell. But the others are coming up, and we ought to rest awhile." We sheathed our weapons and spurred on our horses, again southward.
That great Catholic leader, the powerful, handsome Duke of Guise, who, more than suspected of having inspired the attempted assassination, had kept his hotel since yesterday, now sought the Queen-Mother with news of what was happening in the city. Armed bands of Huguenot nobles were riding through the streets, clamouring: "Death to the assassins of the Admiral! Down with the Guisards!"
"Will the Guisards follow me over this river, also?" I asked myself, as I crossed the Garonne. In the afternoon, I stopped for another look backward. There was not a soul to be seen on the road. "Adieu, M. Barbemouche!" I said. "I believe you have grown tired of me at last." At that instant a group appeared at the distant turn of the road. I counted them. Seven!
And as GUISARDS and FIRST-FOOTERS are now not much seen except in country places, when once the New Year has been rung in and proclaimed at the Tron railings, the festivities begin to find their way indoors and something like quiet returns upon the town. But think, in these piled LANDS, of all the senseless snorers, all the broken heads and empty pockets!
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