17/37 Ah well, monseigneur has the gout; he will die of it." "And this Marquis de Perigny; will not Father Chaumonot waste his time ?" asked the mariner. He is neither Catholic nor Huguenot; he fears neither God nor the devil. He laughs at death, since to him there is no hereafter. Yet withal, he is a man of justice and of many generous impulses. But woe to the man who crosses his path. |