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"But why," Mada her arht, when six hours in the saddle would

set us in Angers?"

"Because," Tavannes replied coldly--he and his cousin alking before

the gateway of the inn--"the Countess is not well, and will be the

better, I think, for staying a day"

"She slept soundly enough! I'll answer for that!"

He shrugged his shoulders

"She never raised her head this

'Murder!' next door, and--Na

off abruptly, and shading her eyes with her hand, "what coe? If all the priests about here are as

black, no wonder M Rabelais fell out with them!"

The inn stood without the walls for the convenience of those ished

to take the road early: a little also, perhaps, because food and forage

were cheaper, and the wine paid no town-dues Four great roadsthe ht Mada At

first Count Hannibal supposed with his corave the corpse of soe consisted mainly of priests and the like mounted on mules, and

clothed for the most part in black Black also was the small banner