It was he who called my attention to Conde's fall which, in the melee, might have passed unnoticed by me until it was too late to save him.

He kept his pistols in his holsters throughout the fray; and it was only when they pressed us so hotly, as we were carrying off the Prince, that he used them; and, as I observed, with effect.

I doubt if there was a pistol save his undischarged, at that time.

They were a reserve that he maintained for the crisis of the fight.
"Master Philip, I trust that you will have but small opportunity for winning distinction in this wretched struggle; but were it to last, which heaven forbid, I should say that you would make a name for yourself; as assuredly will my cousin Francois, if he were to temper his enthusiasm with coolness." The evening before the Huguenots retired from Saint Denis, the Count sent for Francois and his cousin.
"As you will have heard," he said, "we retire tomorrow morning.

We have done all, and more than all, that could have been expected from such a force.