The She Wolf of France by Maurice Druon

Author:Maurice Druon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-09-22T22:06:29+00:00

Everyone moved aside and backed against the walls to free the doorway. Bouville trembled when Mahaut's skirts brushed against his stomach.

Isabella and Robert of, Artois looked at each other questioningly. Did Tolomei's and Mahaut's simultaneous arrival mean that the old Tuscan fox was working also for their adversaries? But Tolomei reassured his clients with a discreet smile. There was no more to their joint arrival than could be explained by the chances of the road.

Mahaut's entrance embarrassed everyone. It was as if the beams of the ceiling had suddenly become lower. Valois stopped dictating when he saw his old giantess of an enemy appear, driving the two white widows before her, as if they were a couple of ewe lambs she was taking out to pasture. And then Valois saw Tolomei, and his unparalysed hand, on which glittered the ruby that was to pass to the finger of his eldest son, waved in front of his face as he said: `Marigny, Marigny ...'

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