Orders were issued, to the startled peasants, that all were to keep within their doors, at the peril of their lives.

The horses were picketed in the street, and the soldiers stowed in barns; trusses of straw were strewn round a fire for La Noue, and the gentlemen who followed him.
At eight o'clock two videttes, thrown forward some distance along the road, rode in with a horseman.

It was the Master of Grelot who, as he rode up to the fire, was heartily greeted by the Count.
"I am glad to find you here, Count," he said.

"I knew you to be a man of your word, but in warfare things often occur to upset the best calculations." "Is everything going on well at Orleans ?" De la Noue asked.
"Everything.

I have made all my arrangements.