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Updated: May 11, 2025
After his little morning hawking-party on the banks of the Beuvion, or in the woods of Chiverny, Monsieur crossed the Loire, went to breakfast at Chambord, with or without an appetite and the city of Blois heard no more of its sovereign lord and master till the next hawking-day.
Kirke?" he asked. "Only one old peregrine," he said, "past sport." "She will do," said Anthony; "and can you borrow another?" "There is a merlin at the Rectory," said Mr. Kirke. Then Anthony explained his plan, that they should pose as a hawking-party.
When he alighted at the palace Condé proceeded to the hall of the Council, which was on the ground-floor; and at the termination of the sitting ascended, as was his custom, to the apartments of the Queen-mother, where Louis, who had entered eagerly into the part that had been assigned to him, and who had just distributed with his own hands the arms which had been prepared for the followers of M. de Thémines, met him in the gallery, entered into a cheerful conversation, and, finally, invited him to join a hawking-party which was to take place within an hour.
After his little morning hawking-party on the banks of the Beuvron, or in the woods of Cheverny, Monsieur crossed the Loire, went to breakfast at Chambord, with or without an appetite, and the city of Blois heard no more of its sovereign lord and master till the next hawking-day.
The ladies were to wear some pretty dresses for the occasion, and all was gaiety and expectation; and Churchill was mortified when he saw how well the thing was likely to take, that he was not to be the giver of the fete, especially as he observed that Helen was particularly pleased when, to his inexpressible surprise, Granville Beauclerc came to him, a few days before that appointed for the hawking-party, and said that he had changed his mind, that he wished to get rid of the whole concern that he should be really obliged to Churchill if he would take his engagement off his hands.
Nothing was elicited from him, even by Lady Davenant; nor did the collision of all their opinions throw any light upon the matter. Meanwhile the day for the hawking-party arrived.
A huntsman dismounts and stabs his shoulder with the yataghan. After a rest the chase is resumed, but this time under the form of a hawking-party. Only the djouads and marabouts that is to say, the religious or secular nobles have the privilege of hunting with the falcon.
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