"Let me add one more.

The Admiral is dead.

The King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde are prisoners.

Who is now to balance the Italians and the Guises?
The Grand Master--if he be wise and content to give the law to France from the citadel of Rochelle." Biron stared at the speaker in astonishment at his frankness.
"You are a bold man," he cried at last.

"But _timeo Danaos et dona ferentes_," he continued bitterly.