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UNSTABLE.
And that troubled M.la Tribe no little, although he did not impart his thoughts to his companion.

Instead they talked in whispers of the things which had happened; of the Admiral, of Teligny, whom all loved, of Rochefoucauld the accomplished, the King's friend; of the princes in the Louvre whom they gave up for lost, and of the Huguenot nobles on the farther side of the river, of whose safety there seemed some hope.
Tignonville--he best knew why--said nothing of the fate of his betrothed, or of his own adventures in that connection.

But each told the other how the alarm had reached him, and painted in broken words his reluctance to believe in treachery so black.

Thence they passed to the future of the cause, and of that took views as opposite as light and darkness, as Papegot and Huguenot.