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To the first group belonged such men as Saher de Quinci, the Earl of Winchester, Geoffrey of Mandeville, Earl of Essex, the Earl of Clare, Fulk Fitz-Warin, William Mallet, the houses of Fitz-Alan and Gant. Among the second group were Henry Bohun and Roger Bigod, the Earls of Hereford and Norfolk, the younger William Marshal, and Robert de Vere.
I stood to my feet and ganted with great deliberation to pretend I had been half-sleeping. He yawned too, but with such obvious pretence that I could not but laugh at him, and he smiled knowingly back. "Well," said he in English, "you'll allow it's a fair imitation, for I never heard that a put-on gant was smittal.
"But the doctor has already as good as told me to keep away." "Gant is a peculiar fellow," he told her. "By this time he has probably changed his mind and needs your help. Besides, I am anxious to hear what they say in the smoking room concerning this extraordinary visitor." She looked around. They were absolutely alone. "Who is he," she asked, "and what does his coming mean to you?"
She was filled with an extraordinary prescience of some coming crisis. She found herself trembling as she listened to Doctor Gant's harsh voice and the smooth accents of his interlocutor. "Well, that completes our search of your belongings, Doctor Gant," the latter's voice observed. "Now I want to ask a few questions with reference to the Mr.
It is summed up by the Antonio Broccardo of the first, by the Jeune Homme au Gant of the second.
Closer to it, all the same, are the Raffo and the two portraits in the St. Mark of the Salute, and closer still is the supremely fine Jeune Homme au Gant of the Salon Carré, that later production of Vecelli's early time.
Here Doctor Gant, who had travelled up from Chester, called upon him, late in the afternoon of the day of his arrival. They spent some time together, and subsequently the doctor took a room at the Regent Palace Hotel. The two men dined together at the Savoy grill, and took a box at the Alhambra music-hall, where they spent the evening.
Our fathers called it "Our Lady's Glove" le gant de Notre-Dame. Only such a "Notre-Dame" as might make herself very, very small, for the sake of appearing to little children, could ever slip her dainty fingers into the narrow capsue of that flower.
We were now on the track by which he and Gant had returned; but I believe they had rounded the foot of the hill that we had ascended; the two routes led to the same point, as our course brought us at right angles with the Nile that flowed beneath us.
But the English, when translated, was bald and blunt to the verge of offensiveness. 'I take up the glove you have tossed us. I am an Englishman. That will do for a reason. This might possibly pass with the gentlemen of the English Guard. But read: 'MESSIEURS DE LA GARDE FRANCAISE, 'J'accepte votre gant. Je suis Anglais. La raison est suffisante. And imagine French Guardsmen reading it! Mr.
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