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Lecour saw that the Canada of the good man was an idealised picture, but he admired his affection and asked permission to drink his health. They touched glasses. "Tell me about your own people, my young friend. Who is your father?" "A country merchant, sir." "A well-to-do one, then, I judge." "He has prospered so well as to be reputed rich for a colony." "And you live at St. Elphège?
Elphège, respectfully shews: That when he contracted marriage with Mademoiselle Lanier, he knew not that he was of noble origin, having left Europe at a very early age with scarcely any knowledge of his family; that since then he has learned of his extraction and obtained his titles of noblesse which he now presents to your Honours in evidence.
Germain LeCour de Lincy is a gentleman of good character and standing in Canada, and son of Monsieur François Xavier LeCour de Lincy, Esquire, an honourable person of St. Elphège. and over thirty others. In this paper Germain had secured the apparent attestation of his claims by many of the principal younger noblesse of the country. He made off with it to St.
We shall never know much more than Eadmer tells us, for if the foundations still exist they lie within the present church. It is recorded, however, that in the time of St Elphege the church was badly damaged by the Danes, the archbishop himself being martyred at Greenwich. No doubt as often before, the church was patched up, only to perish by fire in 1067, the year after the Battle of Hastings.
"Hast thou satisfied thyself of the authenticity of the copy?" "I have; it was attested by Prior Elphege himself, in the presence of the Benedictine from whom I received it." "Then read the letter." And amidst breathless attention, Geoffrey read: Elphege, prior of the house of St. Wilfred at Aescendune, to the noble prelate Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances, now resident at Oxenford, sendeth greeting.
Elphège, where he spent a week, drawing from his mother a crowd of tales about the de Lérys and the LeGardeurs, which had been gossiped around her when she was housekeeper to Governor de Beauharnois. Then, under excuse of pressing business in France, he left St. Elphège again. The widow Langlois was surprised to see her lodger return so soon to Quebec.
Michael men speak well of him in Brittany, and tell how he fought a combat a outrance with Satan, wherein the latter came off none the better man." "I shall see Father Elphege tonight we are not heathen, we English." "Ah! here comes Louis. Well, what news dost thou bring?" "Good ones. Our lord permits the fight. You should have seen how stark and stern he looked when he saw his son's eyes.
"I did, indeed!" the prior started "but it was a Norman fiend, and his name Hugo of Aescendune." "How!" Wilfred exclaimed, as he started violently. "Silence, dear son, thou shalt soon hear," said Father Elphege. "Summon thy courage."
They again read over the paragraph and discussed it, and de la Naudière pronounced decidedly that the man could not be the same the passport of the present individual did not bear the name of Répentigny, and he was too perfect a gentleman. All afternoon of the day of his arrival at St. Elphège, lofty clouds had been moving in threatening masses across the sky.
He therefore was able to enclose a packet of letters and affidavits arranged in order, and which included among others A long foolscap statement by d'Aguilhe, in which the Notary of St. Elphège took care to duly magnify his own dignity and precautions. A copy of the Lecour petition to insert the titles into the contract of marriage.
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