Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 6, 2025
His eldest son Reinier, Seignior of Groeneveld, had been knighted by Henry IV.; his youngest, William, afterwards called Seignior of Stoutenburg, but at this moment bearing the not very mellifluous title of Craimgepolder, was a gentleman-in-waiting at that king's court, with a salary of 3000 crowns a year.
For, as if by common consent, then, they drew a little apart from the rest, where, throwing himself on the sand beside her while the firelight threw flickering shadows among the rocks, the young man related fragments of his story, of the long journey across the sea, something of his home in England, and of the brilliant court of the great queen wherein he had served as gentleman-in-waiting.
He stood on the lowest step, peering at us through the gloom. "Who speaks of the King of France here?" he said suspiciously. "I, Simon Dale, gentleman-in-waiting to the Duke of Monmouth, at your Excellency's service," I answered, advancing towards him and making my bow. "What have you to say of my master?" he demanded.
Nothing had occurred to justify such charges, save that at the period of the truce he had accepted from the King of France a fee of 20,000 florins for extra official and legal services rendered him a dozen years before, and had permitted his younger son to hold the office of gentleman-in-waiting at the French court with the usual salary attached to it.
Then he turned round and began looking at the sea again. But a man should be consistent in his disguises, and from M. de Perrencourt, gentleman-in-waiting, the behaviour was mighty uncivil. Yet my revenge must be indirect. "Is it true, sir," I asked, coming close to him, "that the King of France is yonder at Calais? So it's said." "I believe it to be true," answered M. de Perrencourt.
His eldest son Reinier, Seignior of Groeneveld, had been knighted by Henry IV.; his youngest, William, afterwards called Seignior of Stoutenburg, but at this moment bearing the not very mellifluous title of Craimgepolder, was a gentleman-in-waiting at that king's court, with a salary of 3000 crowns a year.
'The whole world knows what I am possessed of, and I know nothing about it! 'I have never heard it mentioned before, said the gentleman-in-waiting. 'I will seek it, and I will find it! But where was it to be found? The gentleman-in-waiting ran upstairs and downstairs and in and out of all the rooms and corridors.
There is, after all, nothing very extraordinary in his frame of mind, so that I need not elaborate it further. It resulted from the conflict between the beast and the angel that go to make up the composition of every man. The Chevalier de Chabrillane who in reality occupied towards the Marquis a position akin to that of gentleman-in-waiting sat opposite to him in the enormous travelling berline.
This must have been very gratifying from the survivor of the great school of Malherbe and Balzac. At the age of forty-three, then, previously unknown in the world of letters, this shy and obscure gentleman-in-waiting to the Princes of Condé, rose into fame, and enjoyed the admiration or the envy of whatever was most prominent in Paris.
'My precious little nightingale, said the gentleman-in-waiting, 'I have the honour to command your attendance at a court festival to-night, where you will charm his gracious majesty the emperor with your fascinating singing. 'It sounds best among the trees, said the nightingale, but it went with them willingly when it heard that the emperor wished it.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking