And before ill could fall upon her from her foes, she died and was at rest.

Then we returned to Rouen, my father and I, and there we lived in peril, but in great happiness of soul until the day of massacre.

That night in Paris we were given greatly of the mercy of God." "You were there--you were in the massacre at Paris ?" "In the house of the Duke of Langon, with whom was resting after a hazardous enterprise, Michel de la Foret." "And here beginneth the second lesson," said the Queen with a smile on her lips; but there was a look of scrutiny in her eyes, and something like irony in her tone.

"And I will swear by all the stars of Heaven that this Michel saved ye both.

Is it not so ?" "It is even so.