16/20 It may not be." "The sentinels, belike, are sleeping, or wellnigh sleeping, and I have a dagger. O Madame! for the sake of the fortune of France, and the honour of the King"-- for this, I knew, was my surest hope--"delay not, nor reck at all of me. I have but one life, and it is thine freely." "They will burn thee, or slay thee with other torments." "Not so," I said; "I shall not be taken alive." "That were deadly sin," she answered. "I shall not go and leave thee to die for me. Then were my honour lost, and I could not endure to live. |