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Show 458 T1U: LILY A~D TilE TOTEM. we reached the church! I never so laid about me before, or did 80 much execution at any one time. Those within the church, seeing their people in such di.sordcr, and so miserably cut to pieces, in a great terror, fled from the place, takiug, in flight: 3 little pathway that led along the rocky ledges of the mountam, down into t11o town. In this route, one of my men caught hold upon him who carried their ensign; but the fellow nimbly nnd very bravely disengaged himself from him, and lcr~pt into the path; making for the town as fast as he could speed. I ran after him also, but he was too quick C\'Cil for me, as well he might be,/( IT lit had fear in bolk !tis hu,ls !" Here Montluc paused, and closed the volume. u It is enough that I have read; for thou wilt see tho counsel that I design for thee. It is not easy for thee to take it, being a Gascon ; but snch it i.~, borrowed from the wisdom of that same ensign. Thou aaweat him scamper, for thou wert on that Yery chase ;- now, if thou wouldst su.ve Oty bead from the affc~tions of the king of Spain, takt fear i1~ both thy htels, and run as mmbly a.s that ensign." "Verily, it is not easy, Monsieur de 1\Iontluc, seeing that I am conscious of no wrong, but rather of a great service done to my country; and if my own king deliver mo not up, wherefore should I fear him of Spain." u That is it, my friend! Our king will, not from his own nature, but from that of others, who love not this aervie~ to thy country. The Queen-mother will deliver thee up, tho Pnnees of Lorraine will deliver theo up, and the devil will deliver t11ee upall having a great affection for the king of Spain- if thou trust n~~ the counsel of thy friends, and wilfu1ly put thy head in one direction where the wisdom of thy hCf'ls would show thee quito DO lii~IQUI:: Dl:: GOURGU£g, 459 nn~ther. Hast thou forgotten tl1a.t good proverb of tho I talians, whrch we heard so much read from their lips and honored in their act~ons,-' No ~efida.r, tl1W strai ingMwto ?' Above nll, mon atJn, trust notlnng to thy hope, when it builds upon tl1y service done to kings. I t is a hope that Juts hung a thous.1nd good fellows. 1vho might be lh·ing to this day. Now, in counselling thee to flight and secrecy, I coun.~el thee against my own pride and pleasure. It would be a great delight to me to have thee ncar me, while I read thee all mine history ;-the beginning, even to the end thereof ;-the thoiLSllnd sieges, battles and aehicvemcnfl! in which I have shown good example to the young valor 0 ; France, and made the Gascon name famous throurrhout the world." o The heart of the Chevalier Gourgues was not persuaded. He could not believe that his good d~eds for his country's good and honor, would meet with ill-return and disgrace. " The king will do me justice." "Verily, should boeven give thee to him of Spain, or hang thee himself, they will eall it by no other name," answered the other drily. "But the baseness and the cowardice of flight! This confiding one's courage and counsel to one's heels, 1\fontluo !" "Is wisdom, as thou ahouldst know from the story of Achilles. Verily, it requires that the sooret meaning of thia vulnerableness of the heel on the part of the son of Thetis, is neither more nor lc!B than that he was a monstrous coward-that he would have been the bravest man of the world, but for the weakness that always made him 8y from danger. It was in the form of allegory that the satirical poet stigmatiscd a. man in authority. You see nothing in the treatment of H('etor by Achilles, but what will |