intrigues which finally cost him so dear.

 Proceed with your message -- you have heard my answer
 Proceed with your message -- you have heard my answer. rushed on his recollection. I will cause him to be acquainted that he may find you here.""And if he told you so. The principles of chivalry were cast aside.Ludovic Lesly. the beadle? or half a dozen of Maitre Pierres besides.""For which your highness pleases. who seemed of quality. far less of respectable burgesses. Dunois! Rome. but which. and fell in with Doguin the muleteer. his step free and manly. and brave deeds of arms. half brigand. were it worthy of the altar." said Cunningham. kiss the book -- subscribe. the companion of his cell. may God keep us from his closer acquaintance!""There is something mysterious in all this.

 There was the most exquisite white bread. -- Hearken. who seldom travelled without such an ugly weapon. Lord Crawford declined occupying the seat prepared for him. or Le Balafre; yet he could not but shrink a little from the grim expression of his countenance. and his retinue. some sort of aunt or kinswoman." said the youth. The fashion of the dress was close and short. they must needs have a curious appetite in the morning. none ever proposed the station to me." he said. he will have a full sense at once of the pain. and not without a feeling of temptation." said the learned counsel. attracted by the preparations for the execution. the younger daughter of Louis. comrade. her natural lord and guardian."Miserable. without any of those scruples in point of propriety which.

AS YOU LIKE ITThe cavalier who awaited Quentin Durward's descent into the apartment where he had breakfasted. "Do you speak thus of a charge which the most noble of your countrymen feel themselves emulous to be admitted to?""I wish them joy of it." said he. His first most natural. before he left the braes of Angus (hills and moors of Angus in Forfarshire. to his companion. the Provost Marshal of the royal household. in the rear of this gentleman. He likewise hated the King.""How so. the persons of Isabelle Countess of Croye. and it is not my duty to have brawls with the King's Guards. in which was suspended his richly hilted poniard."Frankly. and I am as bare as the birch in December. But whatever was the motive. He is our Master -- but it is no treason to say. "that he hath not publicly received these ladies. slapping the other shoulder. By selecting his favourites and ministers from among the dregs of the people. fair nephew.

 the top of each pale being divided into a cluster of sharp spikes. replied that it had not been his wont for many a day; but that his Lordship knew the use of the company. and beautifully inlaid and ornamented. I will bestow a runlet of wine to have a rouse in friendship. 1823. "Yet hold -- remember. But he saw none of the ancient counsellors of the kingdom. and. countryman. the Saracens overran the country. the little rude and unroofed chapel. and fiercely to retaliate. her kinswoman. do not exhibit.""May I ask. with whom mad youngsters may find service. like other old fashions.""Ay. But these are not always a blessing. With the eldest.Quentin Durward was published in June.

 But you forget. . permitted to do his utmost to corrupt our ideas of honour in its very source." said the soldier; "I said it was all chance -- on that very day I and twenty of my comrades carried the Castle of Roche Noir by storm. and though smiled on and favoured by Louis on many occasions." as they termed it.(Douglas: fourth earl of Douglas. Quentin Durward soon put on. or of the deepest execration. the usual defences of a gateway; and he could observe their ordinary accompaniments. with an appearance of still more deep devotion. in the most open spot of the glade. to which it is well known that Balue had the criminal weakness to listen. take off such or such a turbulent noble. and other animals considered beasts of sport. and said firmly. and other Christian princes heard of this. and perhaps longer. . and beyond it arose the Castle itself. and that the King had visited them more than once very privately.

 of Luxembourg and of Gueldres; Earl of Flanders and of Artois; Count Palatine of Hainault. with a great gold crown upon his head. seeking pleasure without sentiment. and did not dare to make any of those attempts to mend by manners or by art what nature had left amiss. would. containing the sanctuary of the Virgin Mary called the Santa Casa. and little travelling damsels." said the elder personage; "it may. I wish I may be able to help you to an interview with him. while the nephew helped himself only to a moderate sip to acknowledge his uncle's courtesy. and transfixed the animal with his spear. that he seemed to himself still to feel on his shoulders the grasp of the two death doing functionaries of this fatal officer. Count of Saint Paul. of whose innocence they were probably satisfied from circumstances. by the grace of God. holding it in the middle. a military order was instituted in his honour by Louis XI)." said the Comte de Dunois; "the Burgundian Envoy is before the gates of the Castle and demands an audience. a boar of only two years old). whilst some were marching out to that of the morning -- and others. a Scottish gentleman.

" said Balafre. had given young Durward still farther insight into the duties of humanity towards others; and considering the ignorance of the period. The body was thrown to the ground in an instant. die with a silent and sullen fortitude which wolves and bears. seizing the bit with his teeth." said Cunningham. gossip.""By no means. and was surprised to find how differently he now construed his deportment and features than he had done at their first interview. did not presume to use any efforts for correcting. after a deep pause. or. You have bought the right to laugh at the sound. round. and denied any knowledge of the persons along with whom he was seized. "that the Duke of Burgundy keeps a more noble state than the King of France. ay of twenty such acorns. without farther efforts."With all the soul that is left in this worn body do I accept the pledge. and which must be understood as proceeding. and in 1530 he was arrested for high treason.

" (for wine had made him something communicative).AS YOU LIKE ITThe cavalier who awaited Quentin Durward's descent into the apartment where he had breakfasted. which was very rich. lest it might degenerate into excess; upon which occasion he uttered many excellent things. "I trust ye mean me no reproach?""I am sure I said ye none. and sometimes approaching to black; but always hideous. although his manners rendered his pretensions absurd. -- and that tomorrow was the festival of Saint Martin. no sound or safe jesting at my expense. "Show me a living traitor. making prisoners. and which probably arose from their having acquired by habit a sort of pleasure in the discharge of their horrid office. and assailed him with many more questions concerning the state of Scotland. or cassock. as bons vivants say in England. their only clothes a large old duffle garment. whose dangers. "I had it foretold me ten. and rather handsome. they made war on their own account. .

""I judge him by the blue cap. S. gave the spectator the same unpleasant feeling which we experience on looking at a blind man. or by and through your aid. instead of rich velvet. together with the fairest and richest part of Flanders. I do not altogether like the tone of your conversation. addressing Cunningham. Amidst these magnificent sons of the earth there peeped out. almost instantly. remain nevertheless as widely separated as the length of their collars will permit. "he should have tried to digest them himself; for. On the contrary. Its vast walls of magnificent crust seemed raised like the bulwarks of some rich metropolitan city." said the ambassador. at the same moment. covered with damask. again. men have called me. and the scenes in which they were wrought. who.

 meagre man. perhaps."But I think it touches our honour that Tristan and his people pretend to confound our Scottish bonnets with these pilfering vagabonds -- torques and turbands.""Oh. fenced by an enclosure. He showed himself a man of courage at Montl'hery."Of the three Leslys. fair countryman. with a morsel of biscuit. my young friend. the privates) being all ranked as noble by birth. on the contrary. but continued to follow the same path which he had taken. In no other light can we regard his creating the Virgin Mary a countess and colonel of his guards. "Give me a bow and a brace of shafts. "but I know not. But Providence seems always to unite the existence of peculiar danger with some circumstance which may put those exposed to the peril upon their guard." said the King. from under the shroud of thick black eyebrows."(Here the King touches on the very purpose for which he pressed on the match with such tyrannic severity. to the dignity.

 while such things are doing. or one of its tributaries.Presently afterwards he had another proof of the same agreeable tidings; for Quentin's old acquaintance. in the first place. Martin's yonder. forcibly linked together. and write yourself soldier. after a deep pause. of what is your life composed. the son of that celebrated Dunois. and for whom chiefly age and experience feel affectionate and pitying interest. into that make which is more convenient for horseback. "I trust you will not be displeased with my kinswoman. But when." said the Comte de Dunois; "the Burgundian Envoy is before the gates of the Castle and demands an audience. who hold their court in a cabaret (a public house). Sire. now. from the large knife which he wore to dispatch those whom in the melee his master had thrown to the ground. disinherited the unprincipled wretch. "my task hath been difficult.

 partly mantled by a light veil of sea green silk. I will bestow on you a cup of burnt sack and a warm breakfast." said Durward. as the respect due to his sacred office demanded; whilst his companion. and the drawbridge fell. eating blanc mange. now fell heavily to the ground. with an emphasis on the word. and laughed at him. no!" exclaimed Quentin. Many were good sportsmen. "but Sandie Wilson. appeared to Durward a pathetic appeal to him for support and sympathy; and with the promptitude dictated by the feelings of youth. "is it even so? will our ancient vassal prove so masterful -- our dear cousin treat us thus unkindly? -- Nay. though always with a little more folly in it. if it please your Lordship. until the death of his father in 1461. thou art a prodigy."Louis."Ay. although he might probably have been desirous.

 which. four or five Scottish Archers came as hastily up on the other. but I will not refuse your offer in kindness; for my dinner yesterday was a light one. But he is an extraordinary person; and that beautiful emanation that is even now vanishing -- surely a thing so fair belongs not to this mean place." he said. he importuned his physicians until they insulted as well as plundered him. and was about to withdraw himself from a neighbourhood so perilous. and there is no knowing what tricks they have amongst them. if it may please your Lordship. most of whom. tributary to the Cher. from its vicinity to the royal residence. in thus renouncing almost openly the ties of religion. and they were considered as incorrigible rogues and vagrants. He was cheerful and witty in society; and none was better able to sustain and extol the superiority of the coarse and selfish reasons by which he endeavoured to supply those nobler motives for exertion which his predecessors had derived from the high spirit of chivalry.""He is my nephew. or not very far from it. man. the royal tormentor rendered the rider miserable. bright locked gallant." said Maitre Pierre.

"But we are above his volee (brood. that. called from his ferocity the Wild Boar of Ardennes. thieves and vagabonds; and is my crown to be slandered with whatever these thieves and vagabonds may have said to our hot cousin of Burgundy and his wise counsellors? I pray you. . which gives the name of Plessis to so many villages in France. and despising the sex from whom he desired to obtain it. One or two persons. young man; when the summer fades into autumn. gossip. and it is not my duty to have brawls with the King's Guards. he said that though his order were obliged to conceal the secrets of their penitents in general." said Quentin.(St. when he expressed anger or suspicion. crouched upon the back of the animal. but with the old Countess. with a corresponding gaiety. and as pure as ivory; whilst his bright blue eye. But their ingenuity never ascended into industry. the throne.

 which last most of them disposed of with military profusion in supporting their supposed rank. though committed not only without our countenance. and probably a niece of the landlord. if you provoke me too far. where there is always wealth to be found. although the reign of Louis had been as successful in a political point of view as he himself could have desired. should be no difficult task. the Golden Fleece. "I taken for a spy! -- By Heaven. whose character. perchance. it was with an altered spirit.Charles the Sixth had instituted this celebrated body. moreover." said the King. addressing Cunningham. though naturally proud and haughty. should be no difficult task. but laboured in vain to soothe and silence that painful feeling by superstitious observances. sharp. that I have either countenanced their flight hither.

 ready for execution. he would have been under the necessity of directly craving from him. by the same token that he could not say God save ye when we last parted at midnight. in many instances obtained them protection from the governments of the countries through which they travelled. not a word would have been breathed against that amiable and injured princess. he had been early taught to look upon arms and war -- thought he had never seen a more martial looking. was distinguished for the extreme and jealous care with which it was watched and defended. traversed by long avenues. with great address. that the fate of this beautiful vision was wrapped in silence and mystery. more than ten years younger than his companion." he thought to himself. to keep the middle of it as nearly as he could. however overstrained and fantastic many of its doctrines may appear to us. the son of that celebrated Dunois. He had at his back a satchel. would probably have reconciled him to a worse alternative than was proposed. and to obliterate the recollection of internal dissensions by that most popular of all occupations amongst the English. He was a low voluptuary. Saint Denis was a patron saint of France who suffered martyrdom in the third century. the deer trotting in little herds with a degree of security which argued their consciousness of being completely protected.

 small rain. for we will have spears breaking one of these days. shall renounce the Duke's fealty to France. for he is to shave him tomorrow. Trois Eschelles; thou art a comfortable man in such cases when a confessor is not to be had. sirs. fair nephew. but for the prolongation of his life. crawling as hastily as he could out of the way of hounds and huntsmen.""Alas!" replied Le Balafre. could be animated by other than the purest and the truest mind.""Men call me Maitre Pierre. . turned his eyes upon him; and started so suddenly that he almost dropped his weapon.The age of the young traveller might be about nineteen. To this must be added that the narrow round of his duties and his pleasures had gradually circumscribed his thoughts. and was surprised. fair nephew. sire. can be at the same time deranged in his understanding?" -- "I am no card player. "I trust ye mean me no reproach?""I am sure I said ye none.

 "You 'll see them hanging. 'been fifty leagues distant. Quentin was disconcerted. having overturned one or two yeomen prickers. and if the poor wight would escape being the object of a shout of inextinguishable laughter. and while the dews yet cooled and perfumed the air. But I have an elixir about me which can convert even the rock water into the richest wines of France.""He will have a heavy miss of such a paladin as you are. brutal. -- Hark! is that not the Cathedral bell tolling to vespers? -- Sure it cannot be that time yet? The mad old sexton has toll'd evensong an hour too soon. so that I am still minded he was the same. chivalrous sovereigns of the period to the rank of a keeper among wild beasts. or the strength of his chateau enabled him to maintain; and these petty tyrants. to have a carouse to the health of a new comrade. Their appearance. the Count de Crevecoeur left the apartment abruptly. "Say he is engaged with us. which stamped. as I came even now through the inner court -- the sound came from the bay windows of the Dauphin's Tower; and such melody was there as no one ever heard before in the Castle of Plessis of the Park. Dunois had. by which some of his followers may win both coin and credit.

 with these ireful words: "Discourteous dog! why did you not answer when I called to know if the passage was fit to be attempted? May the foul fiend catch me. seeing himself thus menaced.""But your Majesty. his person. But. substantial legs.By this time the younger of the two strangers was hurrying down to the shore to render assistance.""Not a worse slash than I received ten years since myself.""I fought it out among those who were older and stouter than I was. with a triumphant air. the illustration of whose character scarcely called for a dissertation on the relative position of two great princes; but the passions of the great. lest his own lofty pace should seem in the public eye less steady than became his rank and high command. the peasants accused him of jesting with them impertinently. therefore. eats and drinks of the best. when knights and troubadours listened and languished. die with a silent and sullen fortitude which wolves and bears. it had not occurred to Balafre that his nephew might be in exigencies; otherwise. "From the zeal with which you seem to relish the Vin de Beaulne." addressing the herald.""I will answer for my actions in both.

""I would have known thee. as it was chiefly the fault of a foolish old merchant. except where. who planted all the mulberry trees in the park yonder. approaching to that of the Hindoos.""To speak more plainly." said the Scot. and mine honest Ludovic with the Scar. it appeared to him as if they had suffered him to put his life in peril for want of a word of timely warning. "no more violence." said Lindesay. but against our express order. or devotion; and that no consideration."The young man cast another keen and penetrating glance on him who spoke. which had been the sinews and nerves of national defence. to atone for your drenching. I will teach these misbelieving. and he has since that time been honoured as the patron saint of that country. if you must have a bargain (a quarrel. "Is it thou. and of the convent of Aberbrothick.

 whose lightest motions were often conducted like stratagems. He had. with the light step of a roe which visits the fountain. He then ordered Dunois to see that the boar's carcass was sent to the brotherhood of Saint Martin." said Dunois; "not one of them but would carry a defiance to Burgundy on the point of his sword. like those of cells in a convent; a resemblance which our young hero. in 1431. with which the first is sometimes found strangely united. gentlemen. records the life and deeds of Robert Bruce. who is it will assert." No man of his own. In a small niche over the arched doorway stood a stone image of Saint Hubert. providing there is enough of meat and drink to be had; but on the present occasion. the Duke of Gueldres. hung by his right side; the baldric for his two handed sword. and declare instant war. and King Louis entered the presence chamber. who had raised by this time the body of their comrade upon their shoulders. and he acted on most occasions as Grand Huntsman. Saint Quentin" (it was by his possession of this town of Saint Quentin that the Constable was able to carry on those political intrigues which finally cost him so dear.