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"Moreover, Monsieur D'Arblay has spoken to me in the highest terms of both of them, but especially of Monsieur Fletcher; who, as he declared, saved his life and that of the Count de Laville, by obtaining their release from the dungeons of Toulouse, by some such device as that he has used at Niort. "And now, gentlemen, supper is served. Let us go in at once.
"But you must be watchful, Francois, now that a portion of Anjou's army is lying at Poitiers. They may, should the weather break, make raids into our country; and as Laville is the nearest point to Poitiers held for us, they might well make a dash at it." The countess welcomed them back heartily, but expressed great disappointment that the season should have passed without the armies meeting.
"De la Noue, these cousins of yours are truly apt scholars in war. The oldest soldier could not have thought of a better device. "And you say you killed seven hundred of them, Laville?" "That is the number, sir, counting in a hundred and thirty wounded, who are now lying in a granary here." "They must have fought stoutly. But what was your strength?"
"Will you order your troop to be again in the saddle at five o'clock in the morning, De Laville?" the Count said. "I start with a party of two hundred at that hour. There will be my own men and yours. The rest will be gentlemen and their personal retainers."
Henri will not be fit to ride for weeks, yet; and although Jacques is recovering from the loss of his bridle arm, you settled that he was to go to Laville, where the countess would take him into her service. Jarnac lessened your force by half; but I think that two will be as good as four, on a journey like this. Such a party can pass unnoticed.
I have no doubt that the Queen of Navarre will join us, and that I shall be able to take the offensive, very shortly." Encouraged by the presence of the Admiral at La Rochelle, the whole of the Huguenots of the district prepared to take the field, immediately. Laville was the natural centre, and two hundred and fifty men were ready to gather there, directly an alarm was given.
"I am the Chevalier Philip Fletcher, an Englishman by birth, though related on my mother's side to the family of the Count de Laville." "I have heard your name, sir, as that of one of the bravest gentlemen in the following of Admiral Coligny. "Now, as to your cousin; his fate is uncertain. He was certainly cut down by the hired wretches of the Guises.
And you say orders have been sent, over all France, to repeat this horrible massacre? "But enough, for the present. I am forgetting my duties as hostess. Mademoiselle de Valecourt, we are alike mourners you for your noble father, I for my son, both of us for France and for our religion. Yet I welcome you to Laville. For you, brighter days may be in store.
He returned to Laville, escorting the fugitives who went thither; while he sent me, with the larger portion of the troop, to protect the passage hither of the main body." "But it was reported to me that the troop with which you entered was but forty strong. I hear you fought a battle on the way. Did you lose many men there?" "None, sir.
But you must have been well taught, indeed, if you are a better swordsman than my cousin; whose powers I have tried at Laville, and found him to be an excellent swordsman, for his age." "I have had many masters," Philip said.
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