"Why?"
"On account of poor De Guiche's accident."
"Has anything serious happened to De Guiche, then?"
"Yes, sire, he has one hand nearly destroyed, a hole in his breast: in fact he is dying."
De Guiche turned round also, and, at the moment the
horse was quiet again, he fired, and the ball carried off de wardes' hat
from his head.—Page [91].
"Good heavens! who told you that?"
"Manicamp brought him back just now to the house of a doctor here in Fontainebleau, and the rumor soon reached us all here."