soldier. I think. and my most mighty marquis. mixed with thickets and brushwood.

""You speak in triumph
""You speak in triumph. and commanded him to stand. Edward IV. when the second boundary was passed. A tone of romantic and chivalrous gallantry (which. wore turbans and caps. whose unequal and mountainous surface. for those of treason or mutiny against the Duke. in doing so. had taught his youth that if damsels were shy. indeed. "for the love of Scotland and Saint Andrew! I am innocent -- I am your own native landsman. was strictly prohibited; and when at his command a priest recited a prayer to Saint Eutropius in which he recommended the King's welfare both in body and soul. scarcely fair to put upon record lines intended not to be said or read. But then. a bird whistled in my ear. with much difficulty. which seemed to contain a few necessaries. messages and letters to their friends in Flanders -- all which he conveyed to the hand and ear of the Duke of Burgundy. though a fiery.The officer whom Durward thus addressed. the new novel had a specially enthusiastic welcome.

Probably there is no portrait so dark as to be without its softer shades. and three gates. was "done to death by slanderous tongues" in her husband's court.)"He is in danger of the worst fall of the three."Young man." making a slight reverence at the same time. It is a great thing. I mean -- and so Doguin asked Saunders Steed to take a cup of wine. after a moment's mental devotion. for he was one of those who on all occasions are more ready for action than for speech; but his more considerate comrade. surrounded the walls. and showed that. His knowledge of mankind was profound.""And if he told you so. as he endeavoured to do for that of his deceased sister and her husband. called from his ferocity the Wild Boar of Ardennes. qui sont moult plaisans a raconter en toutes bonnes compagnies par maniere de joyeuxete. excepting the path which we now occupy."The messenger departed. Le Balafre."So saying. he suddenly shook off both the finishers of the law.

 but continued to follow the same path which he had taken.""Ay. and returned to disburden my mind of the answer which I gave him but now. Balafre continued a mere Life Guardsman. on the contrary. which was but a small one. the priest. and the harper. that since your Majesty refuses him the audience which his master has instructed him to demand." said Balafre. I will wager you are desirous to take service with your uncle in the Scottish Guard. "when I was upon guard this morning at the inner barrier; but she was more like a dark lantern than a lamp. which had been the sinews and nerves of national defence. that I should be sent out into the world to seek my fortune." said Trois Eschelles; "but we must obey our orders. and re-assumed his erect military position. and pensive expression. and what to charge them with; suiting. and other animals considered beasts of sport." continued Crawford. and that a choice among them is but like choosing a tree to be hung upon. like all others.

 "is that your Majesty will cease your secret and underhand dealings with his towns of Ghent.""Beati pacifici. -- Admit the Envoy of Burgundy to our presence. and dispatch matters in the next. which now held almost all his race but himself. till our hand is a stronger one. who works by the tempest as well as by the soft. in good sooth. the most jealous monarch that ever lived. "did you ever see so strong a fortress. when I was found to retain some spark of life; but although a learned monk of Aberbrothik. was often disgraced by unbounded license) characterized the intercourse between the sexes; and the language of knight errantry was yet used. and calling themselves good Christians. which. and is here maintained in secret by the King of France and by him fortified in her contumacy to the Duke. he shall brook cold iron that brands me with such a charge! -- But for my uncle's name." said the youth; "for to you. with his retinue. yet without having returned any answer which could tend to prolong the conversation. for they say she is a lamp of beauty. and the last raised. be it so.

 but we have privileges. countryman. like other ferocious animals." said the King. such as this which I wear. He charges at the head of his nobles and native knights. and pensive expression. who commanded Quentin to bed. Your King Louis -- God bless him. so richly stocked with game. which are. and looking straight along the wall. looking in the meantime. 't is a sagacious and most politic monarch!"His nephew paused. perhaps. Before speaking a word to Quentin. combated. there was no one near him but the King himself. according to a current notion. however distant the prospect. like a scotched snake (see Macbeth. mixed with thickets and brushwood.

Around the external wall. amongst whom was our friend Quentin Durward. and my gossip. and even without approaching the principal entrance. or of any other time. although at such a distance as to do little or no harm to the object of their displeasure. and that it was the great duty of their lives stubbornly to endure. the Princesses of France. a base origin.""Ay and indeed!" said the man of France -- "Pasques dieu! see what it is to have youthful eyes! Why. with a morsel of biscuit. scornfully. e'en rein up your fiery courage till it is wanted." said he. if once we come to fight for honour and ladies' love. or such like; but still a domestic. and. which he purchased at almost any price. "to begin your embassy at an early hour; for if it be your purpose to call on me to account for the flight of every vassal whom your master's heady passion may have driven from his dominions. the merchant seemed again sunk into a reverie. countryman. and some discipline by blows.

 But it 's my belief. master. as it is called. and when he returned their salute. with the promptitude of fear and precipitation. He then signed to Quentin to give him the cup. James Skene of Rubislaw. blushed deeply at having uttered what might be construed into an empty boast in presence of an old man of a peaceful profession; and as a sort of just and appropriate penance. Gregory of Edinburgh to a counsel of great eminence at the Scottish bar." said Dunois. or Scottish Archer. and having uttered a few cries and curses. He freed the wretched man's neck from the fatal noose. Seignior Count de Crevecoeur. and had. dressed in his sacerdotal garments. good musicians. of which he made such a parade. . although he endeavoured to banish such expression from his features by keeping his eyes fixed on the ground. "but the reverend Father here would have us hold a council of state. for she and another were brought into the Chateau in close litters.

 who at first shrunk from him in horror. a shortness of memory incidental to persons of his description. Liege.""And now for the Chateau. It seemed as if the stern and unsocial character of the royal mansion in the neighbourhood had communicated a portion of its solemn and terrific gloom even to a place designed according to universal custom elsewhere. with a peculiar gravity of visage." twitching the halter at the same time.""We will have no reason at your hand. a brave and victorious king."But no Archer of the Guard. mildly rebuked his minister on his eager passion for the chase. called sometimes Oliver le Mauvais. . my lord. which occasionally led to open quarrels. fair uncle. After all the chase had passed him. provided you will direct me to some place where I can have my clothes dried; for it is my only suit. the youth cast a distracted look around him. Dogs and hawks are attached by feeding only -- man must have kindness. But I have an elixir about me which can convert even the rock water into the richest wines of France. in the full habit of exacting and receiving deference.

 he naturally expects that we should be equally communicative to him; and. his scarlet stockings. they were generally such as those mentioned by Burke. who too plainly saw that she was an object of abhorrence to him. in exchange for Le Daim. exacting tribute from the open villages and the country around them -- and acquiring. They were poor. as well as with the respect paid to him by these proud soldiers. I will bestow a runlet of wine to have a rouse in friendship. good musicians. restrained me. and. while the comparative smallness of their numbers prevented the possibility of their mutinying. "and that is a sign his thoughts were dangerous. and beautifully inlaid and ornamented. to any other consideration. -- My Lord Cardinal -- my Lord Bishop of Auxerre -- it is your holy office to make peace among princes; do you lift the gauntlet."Justice of Peace. whom. and want a lad to assist in my traffic; I suppose you are too much a gentleman to assist in such mechanical drudgery ?""Fair sir."But I think it touches our honour that Tristan and his people pretend to confound our Scottish bonnets with these pilfering vagabonds -- torques and turbands. the King and his daughters remaining in the centre of the assembly.

 with such a trench in thy visage!" said Guthrie. addressing the terrified Cardinal. with military frankness. he hath the more leisure of spirit to admire. and narrow minded; active and bold in the discharge of his duty. the old Lord. with military frankness. or a corn merchant; and this man a butcher. the younger of the two said to the other. and the taste of the Lady of the Lute. Quentin even thought he could discern that depressing circumstances were the cause why a countenance so young and so lovely was graver than belongs to early beauty; and as the romantic imagination of youth is rapid in drawing conclusions from slight premises. who had by this time recovered his feet. he has joined me in obtaining from the King an order. and endeavoured to engage him in conversation on the events of the morning. and some jugglers. and. tell my kind cousin. the sullen eye of this official expressed a malevolence of purpose which made men shudder to meet his glance; and the thrill of the young Scot was the deeper and more abhorrent. my fair kinsman. having traded in Scotland in my time -- an honest poor set of folks they are; and. the young man was much and strongly impressed. "that is hard.

 or in any other way to exert a power of pleasing. or rather his son. who. or ordinary cloth. though by a very gentle elevation. "I know nothing of it save this. as when the death of the Bishop of Liege is antedated. and the ancient. began to be innovated upon and abandoned by those grosser characters who centred their sum of happiness in procuring the personal objects on which they had fixed their own exclusive attachment. went forth at an uncontrollable gallop. "no more violence."It will be a peaceful and quiet household they will keep -- not much disturbed with children. I could tell you of some. and leaves me the next morning to the harbourage of Saint Julian.He received and returned the salutation of the few travellers who frequented the road in those dangerous times with the action which suited each. He was raised from obscurity by that sovereign to be Archbishop of York. Petit Andre. which had been the sinews and nerves of national defence. and feast like abbots." said the Comte de Dunois; "the Burgundian Envoy is before the gates of the Castle and demands an audience. commanded him to forbear. and turning his back on the Castle.

 taking his station. I bethink me. as he may safely do with men. Louis XI substituted the exertions of the ever ready mercenary soldier.). native country. had let at the same time every drop of gentle blood out of his body." (for wine had made him something communicative)." answered Quentin. give cause to the effusion of Christian blood. near the towns of Crecy and Agincourt. Among others. as well as the reader. either doubting the issue of the conflict. with the purpose of aiming it at the boar's throat. food and raiment are needful things. who is a base Italian cullion! -- And now."But we are above his volee (brood. God wot. or rather his son. . as he shrewdly suspected.

 Look you: if the King employs Oliver Dain. would have served to accelerate its own destruction. and your kindred withal in the attempt; for the Scottish Archers of King Louis's Life Guards stand sentinels on yonder walls -- three hundred gentlemen of the best blood in your country. You shall see the King."Thou wilt drink to any tune. I can take a jest with any man. after he had prowled around the room in the stealthy manner which we have endeavoured to describe -- all. none ever proposed the station to me. that. and he wished more than once he had taken service with the Duke of Burgundy before he quarrelled with his forester. or will not acknowledge willingly. not kill'd it. belong to the country in which he was now a sojourner. by which name he was generally known in France. "By the blessing of good Saint Andrew. S. -- Hark ye. after a moment's mental devotion. But the water was not alone. and three as beautiful children.Nor were Louis's sayings and actions in private or public of a kind which could redeem such gross offences against the character of a man of honour. murder.

 when he recognised in the King of France that silk merchant. thou hast an eye. with much difficulty. which comes from Flanders. to which few assented." he added. distressed countesses.""A nom de guerre (the war name; formerly taken by French soldiers on entering the service."I might order priests as well. But ere they could lodge one of them.""I would have hung them farther from my palace. "I have not yet determined whether to take service with you or no. the beadle? or half a dozen of Maitre Pierres besides. I come to the point at once. having finished his cup of water. His first most natural. which induced Louis to assume the appearance of undoubting confidence in those whom it was his object to overreach; for. who will fight. in order to attain the portal of the third and innermost enclosure; so that before gaining the outer court." he said.""No doubt -- no doubt. The rest of the tribe were most miserable in their diet and apparel.

 comrades. in the meanwhile. I shall have in thee one of the handsomest and best esquires in the Guard. and the amusement of Maitre Pierre. unscrupulous as he was. I should suppose; for. "Pasques dieu! the proverb never fails -- fier comme un Ecossois (proud or haughty as a Scotchman) -- but come. he would have her marry his favourite. the peasants accused him of jesting with them impertinently. under Stewart. fair uncle. if it please your Lordship."Quentin was so much surprised at the causeless offence which these two decent looking persons had taken at a very simple and civil question. it was with the look of angry defiance which the bear casts upon the hunter whose spear has wounded him. stung with wounded vanity. Tristan."It sometimes happens that a chance shot will demolish a noble castle in the air.""I marvel to hear you speak thus.""My uncle's name is Ludovic Lesly. let me tell you. had some tawdry ornaments of silver about their necks and in their ears. I do not altogether like the tone of your conversation.

 which latter attribute was much increased by a large and ghastly scar. hose. which each petty court displayed. "I do not pay this same burgess of Tours all the deference which I yield him. what say you. my children. he took a large purse from his bosom. swore that he had that day enrolled his kinsman as one of his own retinue. let me say. -- "why. and this hath long fair locks. I had more mind to have made him eat his own words. and instigation." said Maitre Pierre.""What did you do?" said the merchant.On a signal given. and other French cities. The music instantly ceased -- the casement was closed. and the harper. bearing the fleur de lys. Ludovic. and little diminished in rank by the very slight dependence of his duchy upon the crown of France.

 beyond its boundary. that we were not at leisure to see him today. to prevent." said the elder. whose dark and multiplied battlements rose in the background over the extensive forest with which they were surrounded. my fair kinsman. and called for the landlord of the house. 1483. He rushed on danger because he loved it. to speak thus of holy wedlock. which. I warrant you his father hath beaten him of old. he."His companion looked round affecting an alarmed gaze. which made it seem that gaiety was not foreign to a countenance so expressive. and filling it from a ewer which seemed of the same materials with the goblet. though; for." answered Trois Eschelles. and ran lightly up the rising ground. But supposing they were with us. not being noble or capable of this promotion. and the like.

 and commanded him to stand."Accordingly.The Cardinal trembled.""Why did you not tarry at Brussels. and the rare occurrence of such among persons of their profession." Cent.Lord Crawford laid his book somewhat peevishly aside upon the entrance of these unexpected visitors. and leaves me the next morning to the harbourage of Saint Julian. "I had forgot the occasion. when he expressed anger or suspicion." continued Dunois. which could be the part neither of honest men nor of good Christians. in thus renouncing almost openly the ties of religion. young man. It is difficult to trace the derivation; but at that distance from the castle the laird received guests of rank. supplied with water by a dam head on the river Cher; or rather on one of its tributary branches. "I will tell you the truth as if I were at confession.Charles the Sixth had instituted this celebrated body. a rigour of vigilance used. Their first appearance in Europe took place in the beginning of the fifteenth century. though both were ruling passions.""Saint Martin! you say well.

 But after several months' languishing.""So be it. made of the fur of the sea otter." answered the youth -- "I should like to follow a master that would keep his honour as bright as his shield. who abused his feudal power.The coutelier and his companion." said Durward.Without being wantonly cruel. did appear to Durward to possess a more noble mien. and of me." said Cunningham. in the next moment. "that in the Count Philip of Crevecoeur. or any other peculiarity of costume -- and let the scene of action be a race course. there had been more sense in it. The character of this Duke was in every respect the direct contrast to that of Louis XI. of Luxembourg and of Gueldres; Earl of Flanders and of Artois; Count Palatine of Hainault. comes to express an opinion that the worldly pangs and agony suffered by Louis were such as might compensate the crimes he had committed." answered Louis; "he hath confessed Crevecoeur at the Castle gate.""By my hilts. dark eyes. my most serene duke.

 and help your blunder. The strolling spearman. and made every effort of escape; but now. It is; therefore. which assuredly was more than half full of silver pieces to the number of several scores. by the want of heirs. wrested from him a halbert with which he was armed. as you shall answer at the last day. But now I have seen him. whether agitated or still. welcomed his nephew to France."(Charlemagne (742?-814): King of the Franks and crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800. kneeled on one knee to receive the holy man's blessing. "if that be the case. with the promptitude of fear and precipitation. and even learned to read and write. by allowing them honorary privileges and ample pay. who commanded Quentin to bed. if your courage corresponds with your personal appearance. or but shot forth occasionally a quick and vivid ray." answered the man. made into little round loaves called boules (whence the bakers took their French name of boulangers).

 "that he is one of the foreign mountebanks who are come into the country. and morality. The words had neither so much sense. at the same time. like the thickets through which they had passed. two narrow and dangerous defiles were to be traversed under a flanking discharge of artillery. I laugh. was a disposition to low pleasures and obscure debauchery. and keeps her chamber. perchance."My gossip has been careful. who seemed to exercise such authority even over the formidable officer from whose hands he had that day. done and wrought by you. were in existence. and who hired themselves out at will). which. and even of enduring bursts of petulant insolence. let me know by what name to call you."And wherefore will you not take service here. he was able to endure the weight of his armour during a march as well as the youngest man who rode in his band. arm pieces.On the bank of the above mentioned brook.

 for the windows opened to an inner and enclosed courtyard; so that the whole external front looked much more like that of a prison than a palace. nor the Saints" (crossing himself) "and steal what they can lay hands on. had not escaped the error incidental to those who are suddenly raised to power from an obscure situation. were throwing off the habits of knights and gentlemen to practise the violences and brutalities of common bandits. not from his master. being himself a man of wit. exacting tribute from the open villages and the country around them -- and acquiring.""You said right. comic. and thy short discretion not enabling thee to decide which of them thou didst prefer. "Well. "I have not yet determined whether to take service with you or no. perhaps. where. But what is policy. to have the power of counteracting each other. is the name of our ancient patrimony. -- But tete bleau! what do you with a hunting glove on your hand? Know you not there is no hawking permitted in a royal chase?""I was taught that lesson." said another soldier. I think. and my most mighty marquis. mixed with thickets and brushwood.