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Meanwhile she explained very carefully the three turnings I had to take to reach the river, and the wharf where boats most commonly lay, and the name of the house in which I should find M. de Pavannes. "He is at the Hotel de Bailli," she said. "And there, I think that is all." "No, not all," I said hardily. "There is one thing I have not got. And that is a sword!"
A doughty warrior follows, namely, 'noble et prudent Seigneur le chevalier Thibauld d'Armagnac, Sire de Thermes, Bailli de Chartres. D'Armagnac was fifty years old; he had followed Joan of Arc all through her campaign, and, like Alençon, had a very high opinion of her military talents.
"We know that Theodore de Beze has gone to Nerac to induce the Queen of Navarre to declare for the Reformers by abjuring publicly," he added, looking at the bailli of Orleans, who held the office of chancellor to the Queen of Navarre, and was watching the court attentively. "She will do it!" said the bailli, dryly.
He searched out, or the Duchess of Sachsen-Gotha did it for him, a proper Secret Messenger for Paris: Secret Messenger, one Baron von Edelsheim, properly veiled, was to consult a certain Bailli de Froulay, a friend of Friedrich's in Paris; which loyal-hearted Bailli did accordingly endeavor there; but made out nothing.
The dignity of the Bailli and the meddling of the drummer were alike delightful; Fly was charmingly arch and mutinous; Mysie very straightforward; and the least successful personation was that of Gillian, who had a fit of stage-fright, forgot sentences, and whirred her spinning-wheel nervously, all the worse for being scolded by her brothers behind the scenes, and assured that she was making a mull of the whole affair.
'He was a heretic, and I abjure him, added the other girl, perking up her head. 'Was he in the town? What became of him? exclaimed Berenger. 'He would not be in the town, said the elder girl. 'My poor father had sent him word to go away. 'Eh quoi? 'Our father was Bailli la Grasse, interposed the younger girl, consequentially.
The Chancellor, with much gentleness and goodness represented to the man that the law courts were open to him if he insisted to appeal, but that as to a revision of the verdict; it was contrary to usage; and turned to get into his coach. While he was getting in; the unhappy bailli said there was a shorter way of escaping from trouble, and stabbed himself twice with a poniard.
Monsieur de la Baudraye, a sallow and almost diaphanous creature, would have been engaged by the Bailli de Ferrette as first gentleman-in-waiting if that diplomatist had been the Grand Duke of Baden instead of being merely his envoy.
The result has been very advantageous to the State, for the squadron was endangered and the army lost. Private Letter of Suffren, Sept. 13, 1783; quoted in the "Journal de Bord du Bailli de Suffren." The surrender of Cornwallis marked the end of the active war upon the American continent.
These five old room walls, and oak floor, and two oriels, became specially mine, though it was really common ground to us both, and there I would do many little things. The papers on the desk told that it had been the bureau of one R.E. Gaud, 'Grand Bailli, whose residence the place no doubt had been.
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