The Story of Viteau

hree days, and had found no traces of the cotereaux, he was obliged to return to Vi

y, the chateau had been visited by a large body of armed men, accompanied by several priests, among whom was Brother Anselmo. These men were admitted because the presence of the priests was a token that they were friends, but they behaved very strangely after they ent

er ladies, and almost all her attendants, as well as the horses in her stables, had gone away, the search was given up, and, after a great deal of talking among t

tain that the men with the priests were officers of the Inquisition, and that the Countess had heard of their intended visit, and had escaped from the chateau. Whether or n

his men, hastened back to his castle, where, to his gre

of the visit of the Inquisitors. He assured her that he would immediately begin the search of the forests on the other side of the road; but, before he started the next day, he held an earnest consultation wi

ecessary that he himself should be at home, in case the Inquisitors should come to the castle; and so, after conducting his men to the forest, and instructi

He would have told her everything, and have urged her to leave France, if possible; but he knew she could not be induced to take a step of the kind until she had seen her son, or had had definite news of him, and so

lose him also; and this troubled her eldest son greatly until she told him, as she had promi

dear mother for believing what she thought right about religious matters; but when he heard how so many persons had been cruelly tried and punished by the Inquisition for saying and thinking no mo