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"Then--"

"You'll bide his tiot answered, rather it seehtens!" he continued in his beard, as he cast his eye over the

weltering crowd "Ha! so we are here, are we? And not too soon,

either"

He fell silent as they entered an open space, overlooked on one side by

the dark facade of the cathedral, on the other three sides by houses more

or less illumined The rabble swept into this open space with them and

before them, filled much of it in an instant, and for a while eddied and

swirled this way and that, thrust onward by the worshippers who had

issued from the church and backwards by those who had been first in the

square, and had no er,

confused by the sea of excited faces, and deafened by the claainst the Huguenots,

ht have fancied that the whole city was arrayed before him But he

would have been wide of the erous

scum--frothed and foamed and spat under Tavannes' bridle-hand; and here

and there aure of a priest

moved to and fro; or a Benedictine, or soed on

to the work he dared not do But the decent burghers were not there

They lay bolted in their houses; while the ht except bow to the --shook in their council chamber