human
And your errand, Monsieur de Lameray?
gpt
That, with your leave, Monsieur de Rosny, is for the ears of my master the King alone.
human
Tell him he may come in—alone,
gpt
Ventre-saint-gris! Dost think I will be mewed up here as though I were a craven? Accordingly we opened the shutters, and the King began to march up and down the floor, expecting Monsieur de Lameray to return on foot. And within a minute we saw the baron coming alone through the gateway, and the King commanded that the door should be opened to him; but before this could be done, Raoul de Torcy ran down-stairs from an upper room whence he had been watching all that passed outside, and cried that the men, having tethered their horses in the copse beyond the lane (the same where I had left my horse on that night) were creeping round the wall towards the back of the house. And then Henry’s face took on a wonderful sternness, and bidding Rosny still leave the door closed, he sent all of us but two to keep a watch upon the back until he should summon us. He called to me as I was going, and said,
human
I will borrow one of your pistols, my friend,