Please bring
it to me."
"Willingly, master, and may it be like the sword of the cherubim, to
guard and protect you to-day!"
She went into the great hall for the rapier of the Bourgeois, which
he only wore on occasions of full dress and ceremony. He took it
smilingly from her hand, and, throwing the belt over his shoulder,
bade Dame Rochelle good-by, and proceeded to the market.
The dame looked earnestly after him until he turned the corner of
the great Cathedral, when, wiping her eyes, she went into the house
and sat down pensively for some minutes.
"Would that Pierre had not gone to St. Ann's to-day!" cried she.
"My master! my noble, good master! I feel there is evil abroad for
him in the market to-day." She turned, as was her wont in time of
trouble, to the open Bible that ever lay upon her table, and sought
strength in meditation upon its sacred pages.
There was much stir in the market when the Bourgeois began his
accustomed walk among the stalls, stopping to converse with such
friends as he met, and especially with the poor and infirm, who did
not follow him--he hated to be followed,--but who stood waiting his
arrival at certain points which he never failed to pass.
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