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He guided me carefully among the tan-pits those deep fosses of abomination, with a slender network of pathways thrown between until we reached the lower end of the yard. It was bounded by the Avon only, and by a great heap of refuse bark. "This is not a bad place to rest in; if you liked to get out of the carriage I'd make you comfortable here in no time."
The Council was held at Mehun sur Yevre, and forthwith the Maid, glad to be doing, rode to Bourges, where she mustered her men, and so marched to St. Pierre le Moustier, a small town, but a strong, with fosses, towers, and high walls. There we lay some two days or three, plying the town with our artillery, and freezing in the winter nights.
Silently, and keeping well in the shadow of the houses, we stole after them, creeping like unquiet spirits through the streets of the sleeping city. At first we imagined they were going to the Hôtel de Guise, and it was only on entering the Rue des Fossés de St. Germain that the dreadful truth flashed across our minds. "They are going to murder the Admiral!" whispered my comrade with a groan.
There the horses would be in readiness, and they would mount and ride off. Guy then went round to the Rue des Fosses and warned the men of the hour at which they were to assemble at the count's. He found them all hard at work burnishing up their armour.
There was dancing at the Fosses' on two Fridays in the month. It was their contribution toward the gaiety of the winter. They did not often give a formal dinner, and when such an entertainment appeared to be called for from them, planned it with forethought to make it serve as many ends as it would. Every careful housewife will understand. It was with Leslie that Mrs.
The meeting, in no sense an encounter, occurred close by a thirty-acre meadow, famous over the county; and was remarkable for the punctilious exchange of ceremonial speech, danger being present; as we see powder- magazines protected by their walls and fosses and covered alleys. Notwithstanding which, there was a scintillation of sparks.
"Let me see. Did they mention it? My dear, if they did, I don't recall it." "New York?" "No. If I am to guess, I shouldn't guess that." "Out West?" "H-m, they might be. No, I guess they're Yankees." "Boston?" "If so, not aggressively. Where do most people come from? There's nothing very distinctive about most." "Perhaps it will be on their cards." Then the Fosses talked of other things.
There is no man that some woman cannot make her slave. It was not many years ago, that a far more saintly priest than he eloped to Belgium with a pretty seamstress of Les Fosses. Then I thought of Germaine! that little minx, badly in debt perhaps? No, no, impossible! She was too clever too honest for that. "Have you seen Alice?" I broke our silence with at length. He shook his head wearily.
Pierre des Fossés, and published in the Trésor des piéces rares ou inédites, we are able to form some idea of the vast extent of monastic possessions in the city. The names of the various properties whose boundaries touch those of the abbey lands are given: private owners are mentioned only four times, whereas to ecclesiastical and monastic domains there are no less than ninety references.
This castle, once upon a time of great importance, had been dismantled at the time of the siege of Rochelle; and all that remains are a few badly-repaired ruins, ramparts with fosses that have been filled up, a gate surmounted by a small belfry, a chapel converted into a magazine, and finally two huge towers connected by an immense building, the lower rooms in which are vaulted.
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