"As soon as he had news that Chatellerault was come to Languedoc as the King's Commissioner, he repaired to him to offer his services in the work of bringing rebels to justice.

He urged that his thorough acquaintance with the province should render him of value to the King, as also that he had had particular opportunities of becoming acquainted with many treasonable dealings on the part of men whom the State was far from suspecting." "Mort Dieu!" I cried, "I had suspected something of such a nature.

You do well to call him of the family of the Iscariot.

He is more so than you imagine: I have knowledge of this--ample knowledge.

He was until lately a rebel himself, and himself a follower of Gaston d'Orleans--though of a lukewarm quality.