Many of the servants of the chateau are Catholics, and of the men-at-arms, the majority are not of our faith.

Therefore I used to steal out quietly with my attendant.

We heard, two days ago, that a rumour of the meetings had got about; and tonight's was to have been the last of them." "And now, mademoiselle, what are your wishes?
Have you any friends with whom I could place you, until you could rejoin your father ?" "None near here, monsieur.

I have always lived in the south." "I should not have taken you for a lady of Provence," Philip said.
"Your hair is fair, and you have rather the appearance of one of my own countrywomen, than of one born in the south of France." "I am partly of northern blood," she said.

"My mother was the daughter of Sir Allan Ramsay, a Scottish gentleman who took service in France, being driven from home by the feuds that prevailed there.