Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes

part in the serenade beneath the balcony of the mysterious lady in the

Rue des Augustines. He joined the hunting of the wolf in Navarre; and finally he had plunged into the fight between the French and Flemings, with such intensity of reality that it scarcely surprised him to hear the booming of a gun.

"It is those rascally Flemings!" he thought for a moment. "U...