I gave my word.

We are on the road together.

And oh, Anne! yesterday, only yesterday, at this time I was riding home with Teligny from the Louvre, where we had been playing at paume with the king! And the world--the world was very fair." "I saw you, or rather Croisette did," I muttered as his sorrow--not for himself, but his friends--forced him to stop.

"Yet how, Louis, do you know that we are going to Cahors ?" "He told me, as we passed through the gates, that he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Quercy to carry out the edict against the religion.

Do you not see, Anne ?" my companion added bitterly, "to kill me at once were too small a revenge for him! He must torture me--or rather he would if he could--by the pains of anticipation.
"Besides, my execution will so finely open his bed of justice.