As the King was in no haste to proceed, Quentin at length ventured to ask what his duty was to be in these circumstances.
"To keep watch at the beauffet, with thy loaded weapon," said Louis; "and if there is treason, to shoot the traitor." "Treason, Sire! and in this guarded castle!" exclaimed Durward.
"You think it impossible," said the King, not offended, it would seem, by his frankness; "but our history has shown that treason can creep into an auger hole .-- Treason excluded by guards! Oh, thou silly boy!--quis custodiat ipsos custodes--who shall exclude the treason of those very warders ?" "Their Scottish honour," answered Durward, boldly.
"True: most right:--thou pleasest me," said the King, cheerfully; "the Scottish honour was ever true, and I trust it accordingly.

But treason!"-- here he relapsed into his former gloomy mood, and traversed the apartment with unequal steps--"she sits at our feasts, she sparkles in our bowls, she wears the beard of our counsellors, the smiles of our courtiers, the crazy laugh of our jesters--above all, she lies hid under the friendly air of a reconciled enemy.

Louis of Orleans trusted John of Burgundy--he was murdered in the Rue Barbette.

John of Burgundy trusted the faction of Orleans--he was murdered on the bridge of Montereau .-- I will trust no one--no one.

Hark ye; I will keep my eye on that insolent Count; ay, and on the churchman too, whom I hold not too faithful.