[Saint Bartholomew’s Eve by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookSaint Bartholomew’s Eve CHAPTER 5: Taking The Field 12/35
Your spirit in coming over here shows that you inherit the bravery of your mother's race, and I doubt not that we shall find that the mixture with the sturdy stock of England will have added to its qualities.
Would that your queen would but take her proper place, as head of a league of the Protestants of Europe. Our cause would then be well-nigh won, without the need of striking a blow." "Is it true, cousin, that the court has escaped to Paris ?" "Yes.
I would that Conde had had but a few hours longer, before they took the alarm.
Another day, and he would have had such a gathering as it would have puzzled the Swiss to have got through. His forces were doubled yesterday, and eight hundred have ridden forth from here this morning to join him. "I myself, though I made all speed, arrived but two hours since; and shall, with all who come in this evening, ride forward tomorrow.
The Admiral and his brother, the Cardinal of Chatillon, will go with us.
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