The six sisters of the valleys : an historical romance - University Library

80 THE SIX SISTERS OF THE VALLEYS.
Where's that scoundrel, Mullenier, who
gave this fellow a glass of water ? If I
catch him playing that game, I'll flay him
alive like them. Is the other fellow dead
yet?"
" He's going, he'll soon be like his
brother."
"My lord," said De la Mena, "I think
we will fill up a certificate for our dead
brother, eh ? We can take it to his wife
and tell her her husband has given in.
This will have its effect on a woman's
heart."
" By all means try it, confessor, though
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obstinacy will not yield, I
fear, to paper documents. I forgot to ask
you if you had paid the hundred scudi,
promised by law to informants, to Berru,
who witnessed against these fellows that
they had passed a cross without bowing,
and had brought an ass into the church at
Villar."
" Yes, my lord, he's been paid."