I daresay they deserved it if they were, as the men said, engaged in what they call the good work of slaying Huguenots; which is a kind of work with which I do not hold.

But that is no business of mine--I am not going to risk my life in the matter.
"'Besides, if I don't send off it will make no difference; for they told half-a-dozen men, before they started, that they would give a gold crown to the first who brought them news of the party; and it is like enough someone has slipped off, already, to earn the money.
So I must make myself safe by sending off Jacques, at once.

The men said that their lords had powerful friends at Nevers, and I am not going to embroil myself with them, for the sake of a stranger.' "'We have nothing to do with the Huguenots, one way or other,' the woman said.

'There are no Huguenots in this village, and it is nothing to us what they do in other parts.

Send off Jacques if you like, and perhaps it will be best; but I don't want any fighting or bloodshed here.' "I slipped away then," continued Pierre, "as I thought the landlord would be coming out to look for this Jacques.