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Saint Bartholomew’s Eve

CHAPTER 10: The Queen Of Navarre
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Maybe, while we are questioning them, a party of those we are in search of may be traversing some other road.

Let us be riding forward." He roughly pricked his horse with his spur, and the troop rode on.
"I think you are wrong to be so impatient, Louis," the one who had acted as interrogator said.

"Anyone could see, with half an eye, that those two fellows were, as they said, old men-at-arms.

There is a straightness and a stiffness about men who have been under the hands of the drill sergeant there is no mistaking; and I could swear that fellow is a Gascon, as he said.
"But I am not so sure as to one of the young fellows with them.

I was about to question him, when you broke in.


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