Of the probable interference of William de la Marck he shall know as little as they themselves.

None shall know that secret but the guide; and Tristan or thou must find one fit for our purpose." "But in that case," said Oliver, "judging of him from his country and his appearance, the young man is like to stand to his arms as soon as the Wild Boar comes on them, and may not come off so easily from the tusks as he did this morning." "If they rend his heart strings," said Louis, composedly, "Saint Julian, blessed be his name! can send me another in his stead.

It skills as little that the messenger is slain after his duty is executed, as that the flask is broken when the wine is drunk out .-- Meanwhile, we must expedite the ladies' departure, and then persuade the Count de Crevecoeur that it has taken place without our connivance; we having been desirous to restore them to the custody of our fair cousin, which their sudden departure has unhappily prevented." "The Count is perhaps too wise, and his master too prejudiced, to believe it." "Holy Mother!" said Louis, "what unbelief would that be in Christian men! But, Oliver, they shall believe us.

We will throw into our whole conduct towards our fair cousin, Duke Charles, such thorough and unlimited confidence, that, not to believe we have been sincere with him in every respect, he must be worse than an infidel.

I tell thee, so convinced am I that I could make Charles of Burgundy think of me in every respect as I would have him, that, were it necessary for silencing his doubts, I would ride unarmed, and on a palfrey, to visit him in his tent, with no better guard about me than thine own simple person, friend Oliver." "And I," said Oliver, "though I pique not myself upon managing steel in any other shape than that of a razor, would rather charge a Swiss battalion of pikes, than I would accompany your Highness upon such a visit of friendship to Charles of Burgundy, when he hath so many grounds to be well assured that there is enmity in your Majesty's bosom against him." "Thou art a fool, Oliver," said the King, "with all thy pretensions to wisdom--and art not aware that deep policy must often assume the appearance of the most extreme simplicity, as courage occasionally shrouds itself under the show of modest timidity.