This horrible bloody affray lasted less than ten minutes.
The royal troopers prepared to return to Amboise, and the bodies of La Renaudie and Pardaillan were placed upon the same horse.
The Forest of Château-Regnault.
Gabriel, who, despite his eager longing, and spared without doubt by both sides, had not received a scratch, gazed mournfully at the two lifeless bodies in which, but a few moments before, had beat the two noblest hearts he had ever known.
"Which of the two was the braver?" he asked himself. "Which better loved the other? Which is the greater loss to his unhappy country?"
CHAPTER XXVII
A GLIMPSE AT THE POLITICS OF THE SIXTEENTH
CENTURY
Even after the surrender of the Château de Noizai, and the skirmish in the forest of Château-Regnault, the whole affair was not at an end.