'They will get their way too, you will see,' he went on.

'Well, horses will go up, so I have no cause to grumble; but, if I were on my way to Blois with women or gear of that kind, I should not choose this time for picking posies on the road.

I should see the inside of the gates as soon as possible.' I thought there was much in what he said; and when he went on to maintain that the king would find himself between the hammer and the anvil--between the League holding all the north and the Huguenots holding all the south--and must needs in time come to terms with the latter seeing that the former would rest content with nothing short of his deposition, I began to agree with him that we should shortly see great changes and very stirring times.
'Still if they depose the king,' I said, 'the King of Navarre must succeed him.

He is the heir of France.' 'Bah!' my companion replied somewhat contemptuously.

'The League will see to that.