If I can find him, I will make him an example to those who debauch my Guards .-- Balafre," he added, speaking to Lesly, "your kinsman is a fair youth, though a fiery.

We love to cherish such spirits, and mean to make more than ever we did of the brave men who are around us.

Let the year, day, hour, and minute of your nephew's birth be written down and given to Oliver Dain." Le Balafre bowed to the ground, and re-assumed his erect military position, as one who would show by his demeanour his promptitude to act in the King's quarrel or defence.

Quentin, in the meantime, recovered from his first surprise, studied the King's appearance more attentively, and was surprised to find how differently he now construed his deportment and features than he had done at their first interview.
These were not much changed in exterior, for Louis, always a scorner of outward show, wore, on the present occasion, an old dark blue hunting dress, not much better than the plain burgher suit of the preceding day, and garnished with a huge rosary of ebony which had been sent to him by no less a personage than the Grand Seignior, with an attestation that it had been used by a Coptic hermit on Mount Lebanon, a personage of profound sanctity.

And instead of his cap with a single image, he now wore a hat, the band of which was garnished with at least a dozen of little paltry figures of saints stamped in lead.