Rafael Sabatini

The Suitors of Yvonne Rafael Sabatini

I sat up in bed, and my first thought as I looked round the handsome room-which I had rented a week ago upon receiving the lieutenancy in the Cardinal's guards-was for the position that I had lost and of the need that there would be ere long to seek a lodging more humble and better suited to my straitened circumstances. It was not without regret that such a thought came to me, for my tastes had never been modest, and the house was a fine one, situated in the Rue St. Antoine at a hundred paces or so from the Jesuit convent.