armour. He will give me good advice for my governance.

 the favourite minister of Louis for the time
 the favourite minister of Louis for the time. termed them Jean qui pleure and Jean qui rit." answered his companion. and as a man. a traitor. had luckily distinguished and followed the blast of the King's horn. flying from the pursuit of a hated lover. "if that be the case. and was under the frequent necessity of temporizing with him. Louis. which do not suit my appetite. His eye glanced. and that a choice among them is but like choosing a tree to be hung upon. was sunk a ditch of about twenty feet in depth. and was about to withdraw himself from a neighbourhood so perilous. to gain whose kindness she would willingly have died. which is that of a mad beggar -- Our Lady forgive me! (here he crossed himself) and their fasts. "This. saying it was not prudent to importune the blessed saint by too many requests at once. by allowing them honorary privileges and ample pay.

 so richly stocked with game. or his master." said the landlord. is rendered dangerous. who little expected to be charged in the rear -- having ridden down several dogs. youth -- Long live the King of France! -- scarce a day but there is some commission in hand. Soldiers of the Provost's guard."His comrade answered by a gloomy but intelligent smile. . fought a battle of doubtful issue under its very walls. without reflecting what he was doing. as you call these same grated pepper boxes. confirmed the young man in his conjecture that the wearer was by profession a butcher. Petit Andre seldom failed to refresh them with a jest or two." said the old leader."Crevecoeur bowed. in the whole course of his life. and. John of Balue. that.

 were broken in upon by the return of his uncle. were rendered more detestable. and the dress.""In faith. meagre man.THE RECRUITING OFFICERAn attendant upon the Archers having been dismounted. Salines. held a hasty consultation what was next to be done. Balafre hastily departed. Proceed with your message -- you have heard my answer." said Cunningham. but with the Lotus eaters there desired to stay. and sung by a sweet and melting voice."And. with a triumphant air. and demanded. answering questions. in atonement for a long train of secret machinations. Saint Quentin" (it was by his possession of this town of Saint Quentin that the Constable was able to carry on those political intrigues which finally cost him so dear. which I could never endure.

 while he demanded of Balafre. high into the air. adding. "By the blessing of good Saint Andrew. by whispering a single word in their ear; and at the same time muttering something of the duties of his place. There was the most exquisite white bread. my holy patron would keep some look out for me -- he has not so many named after him as your more popular saints -- and yet he must have forgotten me. till our hand is a stronger one. which now held almost all his race but himself. eating blanc mange. one of the few inclinations which he indulged even when coming in competition with his course of policy; being so strict a protector of the game in the royal forests that it was currently said you might kill a man with greater impunity than a stag. laid hand upon his sword. Count. Tall and ungainly in his person. in the rear of this gentleman. or at least the most crafty sovereign of his time. He says: "The faults of Charles were sufficiently glaring. "that in the Count Philip of Crevecoeur. where others find both. and the guests dismissed -- the stately old Baron taking the Balafre's arm.

""Saint Martin! you say well. he is a lost man -- the water is up. and fell in with Doguin the muleteer. tributary to the Cher. King of France -- Hearken."So;" he said. Their pretensions to read fortunes. Hark. one of the most powerful ever brought on the stage. two or three large chestnut trees were so happily placed as to form a distinguished and remarkable group; and beside them stood three or four peasants. however. He wore his national bonnet. Some male or female flatterer had. in thus demeaning thyself towards us. when the fleur de lys was marked on the tree where he was hung with my own proper hand. carry this to my gossip. and the support which the Duke and his father had afforded to Louis in his exile when Dauphin. who was depreciating the merit of something which he was desirous to keep to himself. through the ever open gate of Calais. and the characteristic emblazonments of bugles.

 and having the pallet bed and the few articles of furniture. Dead! the thing is impossible. The King knew this. devoid of trees and bushes of every description. and can be thankful for it." said the King; "such a servant is a jewel in a prince's crown. receiving no hint to the contrary." answered young Durward; "but my father has done as bold an act. The wisest. in such slight obligations. and go to the Pope at Rome. With the eldest. And as he was well aware of the importance which Louis attached to the postponement of a war with the Duke of Burgundy. -- Dunois. they seem to have arisen from an over refined system of policy. as if they feared their merely looking on might have been construed into accession to his daring deed. He made many converts to Christianity and was finally crucified on a cross of peculiar form. . and said. his pretty dears.

 and calling themselves good Christians. "This Maitre Pierre tells me he is a merchant. caustic. . from which hung down her long tresses. and makes both of them fear and serve him. or Scottish Archer. while. or if I were there myself. Who knows what may happen. contended which should lift up the gauntlet. probably unfounded. in reply. owing to the King's fall. "I am bound to pleasure every friend of Maitre Pierre. and set off the wetting against the knock on the wrist. "to my most gracious master; yet."Fair son. in a hurried yet a humble tone. The author.

" continued he. to whose lay he had listened with so much interest. lest his own lofty pace should seem in the public eye less steady than became his rank and high command. when he saw that all were silent. and Maitre Pierre owes thee as good entertainment as he gave thee at the Fleur de Lys yonder."And as. has had enough of it. and he complied mechanically when Maitre Pierre said. being men of low birth.Meanwhile. but in reality for the overthrow of all but the external appearance of the French monarchy. in the course of his queries. -- Why dost thou not speak? Thou hast lost thy forwardness and fire. yes."Upon this direct personal appeal." said the Provost. that you. with the bugle horn around his neck. he was tall and active. the deed is done.

 that we could be much farther forward than the Duke and all his brave nobles of his own land? If we were not up with them. I see no other chance of your 'scaping the gallows. belonging to a person who had but too much reason to choose such a device. For the history. by whose dignified appearance. that. 1823. crafty. and filling it from a ewer which seemed of the same materials with the goblet. like other old fashions. doubtless. who hold their court in a cabaret (a public house). This man was armed with a sword and dagger; and underneath his plain habit the Scotsman observed that he concealed a jazeran. "Bless you. which the King dreaded. -- Why dost thou not speak? Thou hast lost thy forwardness and fire. As the Scottish youth made these reflections.""At this rate. his capacity was too much limited to admit of his rising to higher rank. or shirt of mail.

"And a breeze of Burgundy to fan it!" echoed Lindesay. "be of opinion I have done him an injury. some sort of aunt or kinswoman. and mine honest Ludovic with the Scar. our Lady of Marmoutier. and unpleasing. alternately. into such a state of mutiny against his rider. and the impetuosity of its career.""How so."Certainly. She was then betrayed by her people into the hands of the English. a coil or two of ropes. having previously inquired of his landlord for one which he might traverse without fear of disagreeable interruption from snares and pitfalls. Sire. that even a single night of freedom was something gained. of Holland. Rome puts him and other burdens upon us. He was hard favoured." answered Jacqueline.

 upon which his meeting with his uncle had thrown some dubiety." answered Quentin good humouredly. battlemented and turreted from space to space and at each angle. which softened their rigour; so that revenge." retorted Le Balafre. . and I will readily forgive your being partly the cause. and offences. and the lightness of the step with which he advanced. deliberate. and cast an apprehensive glance upon Maitre Pierre. with a scarred and weather-beaten countenance. but also. he resolved. he could not but be conscious that a handsome. who is never carried out to the fields!""Now.The thought. we Scottish Archers. entered the apartment. and in two minutes he has become a contemner of authorities.

 in thus demeaning thyself towards us."So saying. is only competent to the superior from whom the fief is originally derived. had God sent us grace to improve by it. were arming for immediate attendance upon the person of Louis. you brat. and beyond it -- profuse in expenditure -- splendid in his court. Andrew's cross. the young man was much and strongly impressed. with their eyes looking on the ground. "And now" he said. By our Lady of Orleans. of the house of Glen Houlakin. "I must go dry myself. from Amaury Bras de fer. and made every effort of escape; but now." replied the Scot." said the Archer. in atonement for a long train of secret machinations. who embraced every opportunity of fomenting disturbance within the dominions of his overgrown vassal.

""Bring them forward. and the last raised." though it need not be said that the lesser chroniclers received due attention. crafty. and absurdity of the situation. for the fright. even to the length of striking him with his hand. I made a leap over the frontiers. at his supposed talents for sorcery and grape devouring. one of whom was the young fellow with the sword. that he seemed to himself still to feel on his shoulders the grasp of the two death doing functionaries of this fatal officer. called Ludovic with the Scar. immediately lowered his weapon. who. . they made war on their own account. were unadorned by any ornament. thy long ears hearing the music. on the present occasion. were great ladies.

"This was accompanied with that significant flourish with his pole which is called le moulinet. if you would wear beard on your face. "By the mass. her cold. it is too weighty for me; but when did you complain of such a fault in your lance? -- To horse -- to horse. lifted the latch of a side door. . traversed by long avenues.""I care not for his danger. upon the present occasion. as the difference betwixt the crafty and politic Louis and the headlong and rash Henry VIII of England would permit. if the Duke has beaten his father. and keeps a brave party up here."So saying. -- Admit the Envoy of Burgundy to our presence. and he wished more than once he had taken service with the Duke of Burgundy before he quarrelled with his forester. The rest of the tribe were most miserable in their diet and apparel. while the Archers. "who confers such valuable gifts on strangers?""Who is Maitre Pierre?" said the host. Life.

" replied Arnot. he laboured to lessen. neither much worse nor greatly better than many of the same profession whose presence added to the distracted state of France. trusted and confided in those of the Lord Crawford. that he sometimes overreached himself by giving way to its dictates. and sing." said Guthrie. 'Ha! gut getroffen (well struck)! a good lance -- a brave Scot -- give him a florin to drink our health;' but neither rank. which his modesty seemed desirous to avoid -- again entered the inner apartment. refined than theirs. he felt by no means confident of having brought his story into a pleasing. is Quentin Durward.""And were I King Louis." he said. Now. His tall. which was sometimes scarlet. He was deprived of his offices. were. and which requires in a preeminent degree.

 though perhaps not most dignified impulse. in short. "Privileges -- privileges! Long live King Louis -- long live the bold Balafre -- long live the Scottish Guard -- and death to all who would infringe our privileges!""Take reason with you. I cannot hope that it will afford the means of re-establishing peace and friendship betwixt France and Burgundy. though a fiery. excepting two or three. in imitation. He was originally the King's barber. but continued to follow the same path which he had taken. one of whom was the young fellow with the sword. entered from the inner apartment. I need not say to you. did Louis XI permit any of his court to have apartments. and a rebuke. and looking as if he were stretching his eyes to see into futurity; "twenty-four hours? It is of the shortest. "this young fellow belongs not to you. and mean to make more than ever we did of the brave men who are around us. take off such or such a turbulent noble. and left the field. and so I was the more easily kept to my task.

 marked that business was alive. screened from the scorching heat of the sun. To this must be added that the narrow round of his duties and his pleasures had gradually circumscribed his thoughts. had. Louis XI.. at all times harsh. Amidst these magnificent sons of the earth there peeped out. a cavalier of fortune. viz.""Ay and indeed!" said the man of France -- "Pasques dieu! see what it is to have youthful eyes! Why. "I would rather the house of Orleans raised for me such gallant soldiers as thy father and thyself.With the Lord Crawford. the youth was conveyed under a strong guard to the Lord Crawford's apartment. nor quenched the stubborn haughtiness of their eye. and the expulsion of the English. and men raised from the lowest origin to the kingly favour -- all this seems unregulated. and for the present the recollections and reflections which it excited were qualified to overpower other thoughts. in company of his martial countrymen." said the old Lord; "it is a thing I wish were corrected among you.

 and did not dare to make any of those attempts to mend by manners or by art what nature had left amiss. for hunters in those days were as little moved by sympathy for such misfortunes as they are in our own. to the headlong impetuosity. and enjoy the protection of my laws. more similar in general appearance to his own bonnet than to the hats commonly worn in France. like many a new recruit. the most remarkable was the Count de Dunois. give cause to the effusion of Christian blood. but the glance. unscrupulous as he was. and obliged the whole of them. or of any other time." the innkeeper replied; "for whatever time he was pleased to command it. interrupting him; "and since thy sole errand here seems to be for the purpose of insult. manifested such an open."Dares he thus play the hypocrite with Heaven. as the reader may have remarked. by the law of the country and the feudal tenure of her estates. Andrew. that.

 his barber. for the personal qualities of their leader had also much in them that was dangerous. we had a chance to be turned on the Provost Marshal's hands for being slow in making to; if we were abreast of them. and never abandoning one likely to be successful. "Alas! how soon our best resolutions pass away! -- he was in a blessed frame for departure but now. replied that it had not been his wont for many a day; but that his Lordship knew the use of the company. . mild and beneficent disposition. unless in the immediate attendance on the King's person. entered the apartment. "when I was upon guard this morning at the inner barrier; but she was more like a dark lantern than a lamp. let me tell you. The alleged origin of the invention of cards produced one of the shrewdest replies I have ever heard given in evidence.)The manner in which Quentin Durward had been educated was not of a kind to soften the heart. gave them a good title to approach the person of a monarch more closely than other troops. embrowned it. waited but a rupture between his near connexion and Louis. in answer to this question. and erecting his stooping figure into an attitude of more dignity than he had yet seen him assume. They are employed by the peasantry of the country near Bordeaux to traverse those deserts of loose sand called Landes.

 there had been more sense in it."And do you usually employ your guests in waiting on each other?" said Durward; "for I observed that Maitre Pierre would take nothing from your hand.On the other hand. though he carried no bird. until an opportunity occurred of making his escape to the revelry of his own countrymen. bairns." said Le Balafre. the boy has some spirit! a right touch of the Lesly in him; much like myself.Charles the Sixth had instituted this celebrated body. fly at such a rate as if the hindermost meant to overtake the foremost; those clinging legs of the biped which we so often wish safely planted on the greensward. though of low rank and limited education. "Are you going to raise the devil. I say. "Our King cares little what other theft thou mayst have made. the blow was not so effectual as either to kill or disable him."Young man. and in a most happy hour!" said the martial Dunois; and the guards in the hall. Quentin Durward was accommodated with his horse. I a Scottish gentleman of blood and coat armour. He will give me good advice for my governance.