But he turned from him now with a queer, excited gesture,
thumping his gold-headed cane on the floor. He called his
servants in a loud, rasping voice, and left the room in seeming
anger, driving them before him, the one carrying his dag, and the
other, two candles.
When I came down early next morning, the first person I met was
Blaise Bure. He looked rather fiercer and more shabby by
daylight than candlelight. But he saluted me respectfully; and
this, since it was clear that he did not respect many people,
inclined me to regard him with favour. It is always so, the more
savage the dog, the more highly we prize its attentions. I asked
him who the Huguenot noble was who had supped with us. For a
Huguenot we knew he must be.
"The Baron de Rosny," he answered; adding with a sneer, "He is a
careful man! If they were all like him, with eyes on both sides
of his head and a dag by his candle--well, my lord, there would
be one more king in France--or one less! But they are a blind
lot: as blind as bats.
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