The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . - lord, answered the servant. To satisfy his master he threw the dead body out of thewindow into the court-yard. The Duke of Guise, wiping theblood from the dead mans face with his handkerchief, lookedupon the well-known features of his enemy: I know him,he cried joyfully; it is he. He kicked the dead body withhis foot and left it there, calling on his companions to go onwith the good work in the name of the King. Sixteen years later the body of this same Henry, Duke ofGuise, was lying before another murderer—Henry the Third

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The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . - lord, answered the servant. To satisfy his master he threw the dead body out of thewindow into the court-yard. The Duke of Guise, wiping theblood from the dead mans face with his handkerchief, lookedupon the well-known features of his enemy: I know him,he cried joyfully; it is he. He kicked the dead body withhis foot and left it there, calling on his companions to go onwith the good work in the name of the King. Sixteen years later the body of this same Henry, Duke ofGuise, was lying before another murderer—Henry the Third—who, as Guise had treated the dead body of Coligny, so treatedthe dead body of Guise, with a brutal kick.—W.

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