The king's physician thinks he has every chance of recovering." "God be praised!" she said earnestly.

"It would indeed have been a terrible day for us all, had the assassin taken his life; and it would have seemed a mark of Heaven's anger at this marriage of the Protestant king with a Catholic princess.

What says King Charles ?" "He is as angry as any of us; and declares that the assassin, and those who abetted him, shall be punished in the severest manner.

He has visited the Admiral, and expressed his grief and indignation to him." "I shall be glad to be back in Dauphiny, father.

This city, with its wickedness and its violence, is hateful to me." "We shall go soon, dear.