It will be a brave sight." "I wish it was all over." "Why, it is not often you are in low spirits, Philip.

Is it the news that has upset you, or have you heard anything else ?" "No; but Pierre has been croaking and prophesying evil, and although I in no way agree with him, it has still made me uneasy." "Why, what is there to fear ?" Francois said, laughing.

"Not the mob of Paris, surely.

They would never venture to brave the king's anger by marring the nuptials by disorder; and if they did, methinks that eight hundred of us, with Coligny at our head, could cut our way through the mob of Paris from one end of the city to the other." The entrance of the King of Navarre into Paris was, indeed, an imposing sight.

Coligny with his train had joined him outside the town, and the Admiral rode on one side of the young king, and the Prince of Conde on the other.