27/67 "Die we doubtless shall, but not before we have trounced this bloody rabble." Still Gaspard did not move. "After to-night there will be no gentlemen left in France, for we of the religion had all the breeding." Then he laughed bitterly. "I mind Ribaut's last words, when Menendez slew him. "But why talk of dying? Walsingham told me that the King hated that nation, and that the Queen-mother loved it not, but it would appear that now we are very popular in Paris." "Nay, nay, this is no time to play the Nicodemite. |