He did not look to me like a young peasant, and I should not be at all surprised if he is some Huguenot gentleman, making his way to Nerac with three of his followers." "Well, if it was so, Raoul, he will not swell the queen's army to any dangerous extent.

I am glad that you didn't ask him any questions; for if he declared himself a Huguenot--and to do them justice, the Huguenots will never deny their faith--I suppose it would have been our duty to have fallen upon them and slaughtered them; and though I am willing enough to draw, when numbers are nearly equal and it is a fair fight, I will take no part in the slaughter of men when we are twenty to one against them.

Three or four men, more or less, at Nerac will make no difference.

The Queen of Navarre has but some fifty men in all and, whenever the orders come to seize her and her son, it may be done easily enough, whether she has fifty or a hundred with her.
"War is all well enough, Raoul, but the slaughtering of solitary men is not an occupation that suits me.

I am a good Catholic, I hope, but I abhor these massacres of defenceless people, only because they want to worship in their own way.