[Saint Bartholomew’s Eve by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookSaint Bartholomew’s Eve CHAPTER 4: An Experiment 26/40
I want to have her here before the troubles break out.
It will be no time for damsels to be wandering about the country, when swords are once out of their scabbards." The next morning the little troop started early from La Rochelle, Pierre riding gravely behind Philip.
The latter presently called him up to his side. "I suppose you know the country round here well ?" "Every foot of it.
I don't think that there is a pond in which I have not laid my lines, not a streamlet of which I do not know every pool, not a wood that I have not slept in, nor a hedge where I have not laid snares for rabbits.
I could find my way about as well by night as by day; and you know, sir, that may be of use, if you ever want to send a message into the town when the Guises have got their troops lying outside." Philip looked sharply at him. "Oh, you think it likely that the Guises will soon be besieging La Rochelle ?" "Anyone who keeps his ears open can learn that," Pierre said quietly.
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