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And no doubt it had fallen in with the Vidame's grim humour that the bearer of Pavannes' first love letter should enter his mistress's presence, bleeding and plaistered with mud. And that the riff-raff about our own gates should have part in the insult. Bezers' wrath would be little abated by the issue of the affair, or the justice I had done on one of his men.
"And if you had arrived yesterday you could have travelled up with the Vidame de Bezers! And you a small party saving your lordships' presence and the roads but so-so!" "But the Vidame was riding with only half-a-dozen attendants also!" I answered, flicking my boot in a careless way. The landlord shook his head. "Ah, M. le Vidame knows the world!" he answered shrewdly.
Only the Vidame with his powerful troop we never knew whether he had gathered them for that purpose or merely with an eye to his government could have saved him. And few men however powerful perhaps Bezers only of all men in Paris would have dared to snatch him from the mob when once it had sighted him.
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