eutache

Updated: May 24, 2025

Meantime the court was already filling with swarms of persons of every rank and degree, but several anxious hours had passed before the procession was marshaled; and friars and monks, black, white, and gray, priests in rich robes and tall caps, black-cloaked gentlemen and men-at-arms, all bearing huge wax tapers, and peasants and beggars of every conceivable aspect, filed out of the court, bearing with them the richly-emblazoned bier of the noble and puissant knight, the Beausire Charles Eutache de Ribaumont Nid-de-Merle, his son walking behind in a long black mantle, and all who counted kindred of friendship following two and two; then all the servants, every one who properly belonged to the castle, were counted out by the brothers from their windows, and Guibert among them.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Chaplet of Pearls