A tour through the Pyrenees . r, when a number of the baronswanted to leave the crusade of Constantinople, theothers went to meet them, and entreated them ontheir knees ; then all embraced each other, burstinginto sobs. Robust children: that expresses thewhole truth; they killed and howled as if they werebeasts of prey, then when once the fury was calmed,they were all tears and tenderness, like a child whoflings himself upon his brothers neck, or who iseoinof to make his first communion. VI. I RETURN to my Bearnais ; they were the mostactive and circumspect of the band. The counts of Beam foug
A tour through the Pyrenees . r, when a number of the baronswanted to leave the crusade of Constantinople, theothers went to meet them, and entreated them ontheir knees ; then all embraced each other, burstinginto sobs. Robust children: that expresses thewhole truth; they killed and howled as if they werebeasts of prey, then when once the fury was calmed,they were all tears and tenderness, like a child whoflings himself upon his brothers neck, or who iseoinof to make his first communion. VI. I RETURN to my Bearnais ; they were the mostactive and circumspect of the band. The counts of Beam fought and treated with allthe world; they hover between the patronage ofFrance, Spain and England, and are subject to no 214 THE VALLEY OE OSSAU. Book II. one; they pass from one to the other and alwa3s totheir own advantage, drawn, says MatthewParis, by pounds sterHng, or crowns, of whichthey had both great need and great are always first where fighting is to be doneor money to be gained ; they go to be killed in. Spain or to demand gold at Poitiers. They arecalculators and adventurers ; from imagination andcourage lovers of warfare,— lovers of cfain fromnecessity and reflection. And in this manner their Henry won the crown ofFrance, thinking much of his interests and little of hislife, and always poor. After the camp at La Fere,when he was already recognized as king, he wrote : I have only a pretence of a horse on which tofight, and no entire armor that I can put on ; myshirts are in tatters, my pourpoints out at theelbows. My saucepan is many a time upset, andnow these two days 1 have dined and supped with Chap. VI. THE INHABITANTS. 215 one and another, for my purveyors say that theysee no way of furnishing my table any longer, espe-cially since they have received no money for sixmonths. A month later, at Fontaine-Fran9aise, he charg-ed an army at the head of eighthundred cavaliers, and firedoff his pistol by way of sport,like a soldier. But at the sametime thi
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