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Him the queen made her secretary, and in her will of 1566 mentions him thus: "A Josef, pour porter a celui qui je luy ay dit, une emeraude emaille de blanc. "A Josef, pour porter a celui qui je luy ai dit, dont il ranvoir quittance. "Une bague garnye de vingt cinq diamens tant grands que petis."
Now it is very strange how slight men and slight incidents bear on the great events of life; but that simple letter was instrumental to a new revolution in the strange history of Maltravers. QUID frustra simulacra fugacia captas? Quod petis est nusquam.* OVID: Met. iii. 432. * "Why, in vain, do you catch at fleeting shadows? That which you seek is nowhere."
Now it is very strange how slight men and slight incidents bear on the great events of life; but that simple letter was instrumental to a new revolution in the strange history of Maltravers. QUID frustra simulacra fugacia captas? Quod petis est nusquam.* OVID: Met. iii. 432. * "Why, in vain, do you catch at fleeting shadows? That which you seek is nowhere."
"Let us go to him forthwith," said I, spurring my horse into a canter. "/Quod petis hic est/," cried Tarleton, "there is his house." And my companion pointed to a coffee-house. "What!" said I, "does he draw wine as well as teeth?" "To be sure: Don Saltero is a universal genius. Let us dismount."
On the front of the house of Auchinleck is this inscription: ... Quod petis, hic est; Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus. It is characteristick of the founder; but the animus aequus is, alas! not inheritable, nor the subject of devise.
The eyes sparkled with a strange phosphorescent gleam, and the long bony fingers were so flexible as to be likened only to "a handkerchief tied to the end of a stick." Petis describes the impression he created at his first concert as amounting to a "positive and universal frenzy."
Champollion-Figeac, 364: "Jeter de l'argent aux petis enfans qui estoient au long de Bourbon, pour les faire nonner en l'eau et aller querre l'argent au fond." He was a bit of a book-fancier, and had vied with his brother Angouleme in bringing back the library of their grandfather Charles V., when Bedford put it up for sale in London.
The brigands were sleeping when the others fell upon them, killing numbers and carrying off a large booty; so rich it was, that the soldiers were seen playing at "petis palets" whatever that may be with quadruples of Spain whatever that may be.
He made the acquaintance of certain French writers, namely: Thedore-Henri Barrau, Francois Petis de la Croix, Frederic Baudry, Emile Delerot, Charles-Auguste-Desire Filon, Samuel Descombaz, and Prosper Baur.
The girl fancied that the sign of the cross was made on her brow, and a kiss impressed on her lips, as she wakened one night. She thought this was mere illusion, but presently, when she got up, she heard, 'comme soubs ses pieds frapper aucuns petis coups, 'rappings, as if at the depth of four inches underground.
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