34/36 I put it down that it was a trace of English blood, of which there is a good deal still left in Guyenne, and some of the other provinces they held, long ago." "I certainly see the likeness, now you mention it, Raoul; but it can hardly be the same. He is certainly that, whoever he may be. How could a gentleman be masquerading about as a peasant ?" "That is what I am going to find out, Louis. He may have been a Huguenot, making his way down to join the Queen of Navarre at Nerac He may be one of her train there, who had gone out, in disguise, to reconnoitre the country and see what forces of ours were in the neighbourhood, and where posted. |