Only the Marshal de Tavannes was of mature age.

For the other conspirators, for the Queen-Mother, for her advisers Retz and Nevers and Birague, they were Italians; and Italy may answer for them if Florence, Mantua and Milan care to raise the glove.
To return to our journey.

A league from the town we halted at a large inn, and some of us dismounted.

Horses were brought out to fill the places of those lost or left behind, and Bure had food served to us.
We were famished and exhausted, and ate it ravenously, as if we could never have enough.
The Vidame sat his horse apart, served by his page, I stole a glance at him, and it struck me that even on his iron nature the events of the night had made some impression.

I read, or thought I read, in his countenance, signs of emotions not quite in accordance with what I knew of him--emotions strange and varied.