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They were, in fact, Damoiselle Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier and her companions, Diane de Christeuil, Amelotte de Montmichel, Colombe de Gaillefontaine, and the little de Champchevrier maiden; all damsels of good birth, assembled at that moment at the house of the dame widow de Gondelaurier, on account of Monseigneur de Beaujeu and Madame his wife, who were to come to Paris in the month of April, there to choose maids of honor for the Dauphiness Marguerite, who was to be received in Picardy from the hands of the Flemings.
"You have good eyes if you can recognize him from here," said the Gaillefontaine. "How he is staring at the little dancer!" went on Diane de Christeuil. "Let the gypsy beware!" said Fleur-de-Lys, "for he loves not Egypt." "'Tis a great shame for that man to look upon her thus," added Amelotte de Montmichel, "for she dances delightfully."
"And where there is that big, old tower of the ancient wall of Paris," added Amelotte de Montmichel, a pretty fresh and curly-headed brunette, who had a habit of sighing just as the other laughed, without knowing why.
"Oh! in fact, what a pretty little goat!" said Amelotte, clasping her hands in admiration. "Are his horns of real gold?" inquired Berangere. Without moving from her arm-chair, Dame Aloise interposed, "Is she not one of those gypsy girls who arrived last year by the Gibard gate?" "Madame my mother," said Fleur-de-Lys gently, "that gate is now called the Porte d'Enfer."
"I see that messieurs the archers of the king's police easily take fire at the handsome eyes of gypsies!" "Why not?" said Phoebus. At this reply uttered carelessly by the captain, like a stray stone, whose fall one does not even watch, Colombe began to laugh, as well as Diane, Amelotte, and Fleur-de-Lys, into whose eyes at the same time a tear started.
"Here's a terrible name for a young lady," said Diane. "You see well enough," retorted Amelotte, "that she is an enchantress." "My dear," exclaimed Dame Aloise solemnly, "your parents did not commit the sin of giving you that name at the baptismal font."
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