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Saint Bartholomew’s Eve

CHAPTER 20: The Tocsin
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The population hate us.

There have been Huguenot massacres over and over again in Paris.

The Guises are doubtless the instigators of this attack on the Admiral.

They are the idols of the Paris mob and, if they gave the word, it would at once rise against us.

As I told your father, I have no real reason for uneasiness, but nevertheless I am uneasy." "Then the danger must be real," the girl said simply.


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