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The cavalier who awaited Quentin Durward's descent into the apartment where he had breakfasted, was one of those of whom Louis XI had long since said that they held in their hands the fortune of France, as to them were intrusted the direct custody1 and protection of the royal person.
Charles the Sixth had instituted this celebrated2 body, the Archers4, as they were called, of the Scottish Bodyguard5, with better reason than can generally be alleged6 for establishing round the throne a guard of foreign and mercenary troops. The divisions which tore from his side more than half of France, together with the wavering and uncertain faith of the nobility who yet acknowledged his cause, rendered it impolitic and unsafe to commit his personal safety to their keeping. The Scottish nation was the hereditary8 enemy of the English, and the ancient, and, as it seemed, the natural allies of France. They were poor, courageous9, faithful; their ranks were sure to be supplied from the superabundant population of their own country, than which none in Europe sent forth10 more or bolder adventurers. Their high claims of descent, too, gave them a good title to approach the person of a monarch11 more closely than other troops, while the comparative smallness of their numbers prevented the possibility of their mutinying, and becoming masters where they ought to be servants.
On the other hand, the French monarchs12 made it their policy to conciliate the affections of this select band of foreigners, by allowing them honorary privileges and ample pay, which last most of them disposed of with military

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soothing
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n.陷阱( snare的名词复数 );圈套;诱人遭受失败(丢脸、损失等)的东西;诱惑物v.用罗网捕捉,诱陷,陷害( snare的第三人称单数 ) | |
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(捕猎野兽用的)陷阱( pitfall的名词复数 ); 意想不到的困难,易犯的错误 | |
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adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的 | |
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