"Firstly, I have seen M. de Mayenne wounded."
"Bah!"
"No wonder, he was on my route. And then I have seen the taking of Cahors."
"How? the taking of Cahors?"
"Certainly. Ah! captain, it was a grand thing to see, and a brave man like you would have been delighted."
"I do not doubt it. You were, then, near the king of Navarre?"
"Side by side, my friend, as we are now."
"And you left him?"
"To announce this news to the king of France."
"Then you have been at the Louvre?"