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Eh, lad, what does your friend say for himself? 'Sir, said Berenger, interpreting Mericour's words as they were spoken, 'he has been robbed and misused at sea by Montgomery's pirate crews. 'Ha! And you know him? You avouch him to be what he represents himself? 'I knew him at court. I know him well. Father, make these fellows cease their insults! I have heard nothing yet.
No one heard my assurances that we were no such personages, that this was Mademoiselle's carriage, and that the Queen was gone long ago; and, what was more fortunate, their ears did not catch young Mericour's denunciations of them as vile canaille.
Berenger had, accordingly, when writing to Sidney by the messenger above mentioned, begged him to find out from Sir Robert Melville, the Scottish Envoy, all he could about the family whose designation he wrote down at a venture from Mericour's lips.
Then came the further question whether Mericour should be allowed an interview with Lucy. Sir Marmaduke was simple enough to fancy that she need not be made aware of the cause of Mericour's new arrangement, and decided against it. The young man sorrowfully acquiesced, but whether such a secret could be kept was another thing.
The colour rushed hotly into young Mericour's face, and he answered quickly, 'My rank I mean my order should answer that. 'Stay, young man, we are not in France; your order, be it what it may, has not hindered many a marriage in England; though, look you, no man should ever wed with my consent who broke his word to God in so doing; but they tell me your vows are not always made at your age.
As to M. l'Abbe de Mericour's friends, Sir Robert Melville had recognized their name at once, and had pronounced them to be fierce Catholics and Queensmen, so sorely pressed by the Douglases, that it was believed they would soon fly the country altogether; and Sidney added, what Lord Walwyn had already said, that to seek Scotland rather than France as a resting-place in which to weigh between Calvinism and Catholicism, was only trebly hot and fanatical.
She had means enough to advance a sufficient sum to pay Mericour's passage, and he accepted it most punctiliously as a loan, intending, so soon as her despatches were ready, to go on to La Rochelle, and make inquiry for a ship.
'Sir, was the reply, without a sign of recognition, 'if, indeed, you know my name, I entreat you to direct me to the chateau of Le Sieur Tistefote, whose lady was once Baronne de Ribaumont. 'My mother! Ah, my friend, my friend! what would you? he cried in a tone of tremulous hope and fear, laying one hand on Mericour's shoulder, and about to embrace him.
Spinks scarcely withdrew his hand from Mericour's neck; and scowling, said, 'Very odd gentleman very queer tidings, Master Berenger, to fell you like an ox. I must be answerable for the fellow till his Honour comes. 'Ah! Eh quoi, wherefore not show the canaille your sword? said Mericour, impatiently.
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