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The Bastard of Burgundy, wearing the Burgundian coat-of-arms with a bar sinister, made a fine record for himself. After the tournament he invited the ladies to a Sunday dinner, "especially the Queen and her sisters and made great preparations therefor and then we departed, Thomas de Loreille, Bailiff of Caux, and I to go to Brittany to accomplish our embassy.
We had among the garments on board three not exactly suited to the white settlers, so I told the agent to let the Indians have a rifle shooting match for them. They were a fox huntsman's red broadcloth tail-coat, with all the glory of gilt buttons, a rather dilapidated red golf blazer, and a white, cavalryman's Eton coat, with silver buttons, and the coat-of-arms on.
On entering the room, I find his daughter just putting away a lavender-colored silk scarf, on which she has been embroidering in silver what looks to me very like a crest and coat-of-arms. "'I don't mind your seeing what I am about, Citizen Lomaque, says she; 'for I know my father can trust you.
And in countries where certain colors distinguish certain families, and are hereditary, so to say, it is convenient and pleasant to recognize a coat-of-arms, or a livery, and to know that the representative of a great and famous family is passing by. "That's a Howard, that's a Eussell, that's a Dorset, that's de Colique, that's Mount Ague," old Lord Mammon used to say as the carriages whirled by.
The sight of the coat-of-arms on the cigarette-case aroused in Heideck the desire to make nearer acquaintance with his impetuous neighbour. As though he had quite forgotten the extraordinary manner of his entrance into the room, he asked, blandly, if he might invite his neighbour, whom accident had thus thrust upon him, to a cigar and a "nightcap."
"Well, having done the trick, you ought to have had a Russian passport, have made up as a Russian prince, bought a fine coach with a coat-of-arms on it, have boldly deposited your money in a bank, have got a letter of credit on Hamburg, and then have set out posting to Hamburg with a valet, a ladies' maid, and your mistress disguised as a Russian princess.
The fashionable matron may feel some degree of exultation as she regards the splendor of her newly furnished reception-room. But their joy was as nothing compared with the delight with which an Indian woman, for the first time in her life, hung a stout iron kettle over her cabin fire. La Salle named his vessel the "Griffin," as that animal was one of the emblems on his family coat-of-arms.
Among them all there are only two where Death is a figure of violence; and but one, the knight, transfixed by one fell, malignant stroke from behind where Death exhibits positive ferocity. In both of these, the Count, beaten down by his own great coat-of-arms, is the other, it is easy to read a reflection of the actualities of the Peasants' War then raging.
This suggestion of learning was enforced by the little wooden shield bearing a college coat-of-arms that hung over the looking-glass, and by a photograph of Mr. Gabbitas in cap and gown in an Oxford frame that adorned the opposite wall.
'And remember, men are not given into custody for watching others, he significantly added. 'I know you, and if you have any regard for yourself, you'll keep out of my way. "He had got into a private carriage as he spoke, and it drove away; I could see that it had a great coat-of-arms upon it." "When do you say this was?" "A week ago.
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