"I will take you at your word, Sir Karl," said the burgher.

"It were but a poor game to play," said the burgher.

"I deem it were an easy thing," said the burgher.

"It may be," said the Burgher, "that this is not amongst the wisest of our dealings.

"Yes-yes, to-morrow evening," said the burgher, hesitatingly.

"My son," said the burgher, boldly, "do you know that to save the king is to ruin France?

"Thou hast many foes in these parts," said the burgher, "and thou wouldst do well to ware of them."

"Ask on," said the burgher.

"Are you not aware," said the burgher, "that the Queen of Navarre has nothing of the woman in her except sex?

"I am happy to embrace you," said the burgher; and I believe he was on the point of doing it, literally as well as figuratively.