Moreover he would say that, even if you had evidence, even if you had something to show that treachery was meant, he would still, in the interest of France, stay at his post of duty." At this moment the door opened, and Francois de Laville entered hurriedly.
"What is the matter, Francois ?" Philip exclaimed, seeing that his cousin looked pale and agitated.
"Have you not heard the news ?" "I have heard nothing.

I have not been out this morning." "The Admiral has been shot." Philip uttered an exclamation of horror.
"Not killed, Francois; not killed, I trust ?" "No; two balls were fired, one took off a finger of his right hand, and another has lodged in his left arm.

He had just left the king, who was playing at tennis, and was walking homewards with two or three gentlemen, when an arquebus was fired from a house not far from his own.

Two of the gentlemen with him assisted him home, while some of the others burst in the door of the house.
"They were too late.

Only a woman and a manservant were found there.