Take a trifle of the light white wine that Monsieur Berryer is pouring for you.

It won't hurt you." Robert steadied himself and sipped a little.

De Mezy and his satellites, Nemours and Le Moyne, sat down noisily at a table and ordered claret.

De Mezy gave the cue.

They talked of the Bostonnais, not only of the two Bostonnais who were present, but of the Bostonnais in all the English colonies, applying the word to them whether they came from Massachusetts or New York or Virginia.