"
She repeated her words.
"'Tis a little price to pay for my lover. Do you doubt me?"
Unheeded a man-at-arms pushed his way through the crowd to the
king's dais and whispered some words in the ear of Noel le Jolys,
who in turn whispered in the ear of Olivier and Olivier hearing,
grew paler than before. Villon caught Katherine by the hand.
"No, Kate, no! The world is wide, our hearts are light. For a star
has fallen to me from heaven and it fills the earth with glory."
His words fell on the king's ears like the voice of an oracle.
Standing in his place with staring eyes and trembling fingers, he
repeated falteringly the mystic words.
"A star has fallen from heaven. My dream, my dream!"
Olivier plucked at his mantle, whispering with twitching lips:
"My liege, this story spreads like the plague in the city and every
alley vomits mutiny."
Louis pushed him aside.
"Rub your pale cheeks," he said; "for all is well. Destiny has
spoken."
Then leaning over and stretching his thin hand towards the crowd, he
cried:
"People of Paris, that man shall have his life; this woman her
lover. I have tried a man's heart and found it pure gold; a woman's
soul and found it all angel.
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