14/67 My rascally groom carried a message to Sir Francis, and as he has been gone over an hour, I fear he may have come to an untimely end." "Then it will be well this night for us two to hold together. I know our Paris mob and there is nothing crueller out of hell. The pistolling of the Admiral de Coligny has given them a taste of blood, and they may have a fancy for killing Luteranos. Two such as you and I, guarding each other's backs, may see sport before morning, and haply rid the world of a few miscreants. What say you, camerado ?" "Good. |