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On the other side were the veteran Captal de Buch and the brawny Olivier de Clisson, with the free companion Sir Perducas d'Albret, the valiant Lord of Mucident, and Sigismond von Altenstadt, of the Teutonic Order.
Pertinax de Montcrabeau and Perducas de Pincornay turned deadly pale, and Montcrabeau tried to stammer out some excuses. All eyes were turned toward them. "Nothing can excuse you," said De Loignac; "even if you were drunk you should be punished for that; and you shall be punished." A terrible silence ensued.
"Well! all the more reason to present our compliments to them," cried Perducas de Pincornay, in a tipsy voice. "And what friends are they? We will see!" cried St. Maline. The good hostess, hoping to prevent a collision, glided among them, and whispered Ernanton's name in St. Maline's ear. "Ernanton!" cried St.
The man with the mole upon his cheek is the Lord Pommers, and his two brothers stand behind him, with the Lord Lesparre, Lord de Rosem, Lord de Mucident, Sir Perducas d'Albret, the Souldich de la Trane, and others. Further back are knights from Quercy, Limousin, Saintonge, Poitou, and Aquitaine, with the valiant Sir Guiscard d'Angle. That is he in the rose-colored doublet with the ermine."
Perducas de Pincornay had bought from some Jew a gold chain as thick as a cable; Pertinax de Montcrabeau was all bows and embroidery: he had bought his costume from a merchant who had purchased it of a gentleman who had been wounded by robbers. It was rather stained with blood and dirt, it was true, but he had managed to clean it tolerably.
The prince nodded, and the trumpets rang out, while the champions rode forth one after the other, each meeting his opponent in the centre of the lists. Sir William Beauchamp went down before the practiced lance of the Captal de Buch. Sir Thomas Percy won the vantage over the Lord of Mucident, and the Lord Audley struck Sir Perducas d'Albret from the saddle.
"Well, then!" continued De Loignac, "you will have time to become acquainted with each other afterward. You agree that you have come here to obey him?" "Yes, yes," they cried. "Then, to begin; go quietly out of this hotel to the lodgings prepared for you." "For all?" asked St. Maline. "Yes, for all." "We are all equal here," cried Perducas, whose limbs felt rather doubtful under him.
And first thither came sir Robert Knolles and sir Perducas d'Albret, well accompanied, and divers of the aldermen of London, and with them a six hundred men in harness, and a puissant man of the city, who was the king's draper, called Nicholas Bramber, and he brought with him a great company; and ever as they came, they ranged them afoot in order of battle: and on the other part these unhappy people were ready ranged, making semblance to give battle, and they had with them divers of the king's banners.
The process of examination consisted in comparing the half card with another half in the possession of the officer. The Gascon with the bare head advanced first. "Your name?" said De Loignac. "It is on the card." "Never mind; tell it to me." "Well, I am called Perducas de Pincornay." Then, throwing his eyes on the card. M. de Loignac read.
"No," replied Perducas de Pincornay, "the sign is tempting for men of honor." "Ah! is it you?" said St. Maline, the gentleman with the lackeys, "you have not yet explained to me what you were about to do, when the crowd separated us." "What was that?" asked Pincornay, reddening. "How it happens that I met you on the road between Angoulême and Angers without a hat, as you are now?"
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