We shall have some good hunting, and there is no court grandeur, and certainly no more state than we have at our chateau.

In fact, my good mother is a much more important personage, there, than is Jeanne of Navarre at Bearn." This letter hastened Philip's departure.

The prospect of hunting in the mountains of Navarre was a pleasant one.

He liked the young prince; and had, in the short time he had been his companion, perceived that there was much more in him than appeared on the surface; and that, beside his frank bonhomie manner, there was a fund of shrewdness and common sense.

Moreover, without being ambitious, it is pleasant for a young man to know that one, who may some day be a great prince, has conceived a good opinion of him.
He took Francois' letter down to his uncle Gaspard, and read portions of it to him.