A hum of approval came from the spectators, who now numbered more than a score, but the approval was given for different reasons.

Some, and they belonged to the _honnetes gens_, were glad to see de Mezy rebuked and hoped that he would be punished; others, the following of Bigot, Cadet, Pean and their corrupt crowd, were eager to see the Bostonnais suffer for his insolence to one of their number.

But most of them, both the French of old France and the French of Canada, chivalric of heart, were resolved to see fair play.
Monsieur Berryer shrugged his shoulders, but made no protest.

The affair to his mind managed itself very well.

There had been none of the violence that he had apprehended.