26/67 It is a plot against our faith. They have got the pick of us in their trap and would make an end of us." From every house and entry men and women and priests were pouring to swell the army that pressed roaring eastwards. No one heeded the two as they sat their horses like rocks in the middle of a torrent. "Our few hundred spears cannot stand against the King's army. It remains for us to die with him." Champernoun was cursing steadily in a mixture of English and Spanish, good mouth-filling oaths delivered without heat. |