One would think that the Queen of Navarre had got a big Huguenot army together, and was marching north." "I should not think she could raise an army," Philip said carelessly; "and if she is wise, she will stop quietly down in Bearn." "There is a rumour here," the landlord said, "that she is at Nerac, with only a small party of gentlemen; and that she is on her way to Paris, to assure the king that she has no part in these troubles.

I don't know whether that has anything to do with the troops; who, as I hear, are swarming all over the country.

They say that there are fifteen hundred men at Agen." "I am afraid we shall have trouble at this bridge," Philip said, as the landlord left them.

"They seem to be a rough lot, and this truculent lieutenant may not be satisfied with a story that his betters would accept, without question.

We will ask our host if there is any place where the river can be forded, without going too far up.