human
What news of the camp?
gpt
The question I myself would ask, he said,
human
From Paris?
gpt
Yes. I set off thither the very day after you left us, having friends there who are also very good friends of the King, and yet know all the counsels of the Leaguers. I rode thence the day before yesterday, bearing news of a plot to kill the King.
human
Another?
gpt
I know not what you mean by ’another,’ my friend; but there is assuredly one afoot, and I rode apace with the news, and was chased well-nigh all the way from Paris by a fellow that had the very cut of a Leaguer. But I shook him off yesterday evening, just before the storm broke, and came safe into camp, and little enough I had for my pains.
human
Why, did the King flout you too?
gpt
He laughed, and took it very lightly. ’Another?’ says he, just as you did: ’I hear of plots as regularly as I eat my dinner.’ And then he went off arm in arm with Rosny and paid no more heed to me.
human
I love our Henry, said Raoul, with a shrug, when I had made an end;