Ride on, Dunois--I follow instantly." Louis, whose lightest motions were often conducted like stratagems, thus gained an opportunity to ask Quentin privately, "My bonny Scot, thou hast an eye, I see.

Canst thou tell me who helped the Cardinal to a palfrey ?--Some stranger, I should suppose; for, as I passed without stopping, the courtiers would likely be in no hurry to do him such a timely good turn." "I saw those who aided his Eminence but an instant, Sire," said Quentin; "it was only a hasty glance, for I had been unluckily thrown out, and was riding fast to be in my place; but I think it was the Ambassador of Burgundy and his people." "Ha," said Louis.

"Well, be it so.

France will match them yet." There was nothing more remarkable happened, and the King, with his retinue, returned to the Castle..