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"My father is generally known as the Merchant Lecour of St Elphège. His full name is LeCour de Lincy." "That is the name on your passport," interrupted de la Naudière. "I never knew he was a noble." "He has never boasted of it," returned Lecour. "An honest old fellow," Dorchester commented.
"The name is a common one, sir, yet the list is not long. Indeed so common is the name, and so short the list of its stocks of distinction that there have been but two. One is the well-known family of Amiens, the other is now obscure." "What branch is the latter?" "The LeCours de Lincy, formerly a conspicuous race in the annals of Poitou and very ancient.
Are you my old schoolfellow of the Little Seminary?" "Yes, it was at the Little Seminary I have not been wrong then but it is your name, my good schoolfellow, which escapes me; and now you look so distinguished that I hope you are not going to forget a schoolmate on that account?" "Never, sir. My name is the Chevalier LeCour de Lincy, officer of the Guards of His Most Christian Majesty.
"What about this new name?" said the mother at length; "they have given you a title in France?" "Not at all, mother," he replied. "But they call you 'Monsieur de Lincy, you say." "It is not a new name; it is the real one of the family you are entitled to it as well as I." "What does that mean, son Germain? Have we been ignorant of our own name?"
Germain LeCour de Lincy is a gentleman of good character and standing in Canada, and son of Monsieur François Xavier LeCour de Lincy, Esquire, an honourable person of St. Elphège. and over thirty others. In this paper Germain had secured the apparent attestation of his claims by many of the principal younger noblesse of the country. He made off with it to St.
The whole line broke out again and again into the repeated cry of, "Vive de Lincy!" while Germain rode rapidly along. The crowd of spectators took it up, and added tremendous shouts of approbation. Nor did the cry end with the parade.
"Monsieur de Lincy here knows well that I am right in preventing you from sacrificing your position. I call upon his honour as a noble not to allow this disgrace to fall upon you. I call upon it to sustain the head of your house. I call upon it to reverence the wish of the dead and the will of the King. You admit me right and just, Monsieur de Lincy? I call upon your honour as a noble. Answer me."
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