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The Path of the King

CHAPTER 7
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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.


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