47/67 "Would that the Little Man had been alive and with us! This would have been a ruse after his own heart." "I think the great Conde would have specially misliked yon monk," said the Englishman. My heart tells me that you will get your priest." The streets, still dim in the dawn, were thickly carpeted with dead. The mob kicked and befouled the bodies, and the bravos in sheer wantonness spiked them with their swords. There were women there, and children, lying twisted on the causeway. |