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La Fosse led the iththat he would be ht, had this irresponsible, irrepressible rhyhts of passion with him, and when I mentioned, in answer to a hint dropped in connection with the edict, that I had the King's sanction for this combat, he was nearly mad with joy
"Blood of La Fosse!" was his oath "The honour to stand by you shall be mine, my Bardelys! You owe it me, for am I not in part to blaentleman yonder, with the wild-cat moustaches and a name like a Gascon oath--that cousin of Mironsac's, Ito be in it But you'll grant me the honour, will you not? Pardieu! It will earn raveyard," quoth I, by way of cooling his ardour
"Peste! What an augury!" Then, with a laugh: "But," he added, indicating Saint-Eustache, "that long, lean saint--I forget of what he is patron--hardly wears a murderous air"
To win peace from him, I promised that he should stand by me But the favour lost much of its value in his eyes when presently I added that I did not wish the seconds to engage, since the matter was of so very personal a character
Mironsac and Castelroux, assisted by Saint-Eustache, closed the heavy portecochere, and so shut us in froates brought the landlord and a couple of his knaves, and ere subjected to the prayers and intercessions, to the stors that are ever the prelude of a stable-yard fight, but which invariably end, as these ended, in the landlord's withdrawal to run for help to the nearest corps-de-garde
"Now, my myrmillones," cried La Fosse in bloodthirsty jubilation, "to work before the host returns"
"Po' Cap de Dieu!" growled Castelroux, "is this a ti, as he assisted me to doff my doublet "Do I jest? Diable! you Gascons are a sloitted folk! I have a taste for allegory,as jesting"
At last ere ready, and I shifted the whole of ure of Chatellerault as he advanced upon me, stripped to the waist, his face set and his eyes full of stern resolve Despite his low stature, and the breadth of fra very forreat masses of muscular flesh, and if his wrist were but half as supple as it looked powerful, that alone should render hionist