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He paused to see who she was, and his thoughts involuntarily went back to

the wo in the upper rooain and stood to count the dead He identified Piles, identified

Pardaillan, identified Soubise--whose corpse the --and Touchet and St Galais Hewith an

unmoved face, and with the same face stopped and stared, and hter about "le petit homme" at

Jarnac, and the dead of three pitched fields? But when a bystander,

s obsequiously, passed hier

pointed the jest, he had the saibe as for

the dead And the jester shrank away, abashed and perplexed by his stare

and his reticence

Halfway up the staircase to the great gallery or guard-room above, Count

Hannibal found his brother, the Marshal, huddled together in drunken

sluallery to which he passed on

without awakening him, a crowd of courtiers and ladies, with arquebusiers

and captains of the quarters, walked to and fro, talking in whispers; or

peeped over shoulders towards the inner end of the hall, where the

querulous voice of the King rose now and again above the hu out, booted and

armed for the road, met him and almost jostled him

"Ah, well met, M le Comte," he sneered, with ashas asked for you twice"