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As I was entering the hostelry there was a clatter of hoofs in the street, and four dragoons headed by a sergeant rode up and halted at the door of the Paon. They seemed to have ridden hard and some distance, for their horses were jaded almost to the last point of endurance.
I give you this information, gentlemen, as I am not sure if any of you have travelled so far." The captains looked at one another and the eldest among them, M. Baudus, of Le Paon, stood up. "Monsieur will forgive the remark," he said, "but it appears to me that he forgets his place."
Up and up they went, and spreading as they rose, until there was a wonderful great circle of them back of his body and reaching far above his head. The Gobbler's spread tail looked as small beside this as a Dove's egg would beside that of a Goose. "Paon!" said the Peacock. "I am no Turkey Gobbler. I am a Peacock." "Pffff!" said the Gobbler. Then he turned to the Hen Turkeys.
Yet the view was long held, and is still maintained by writers of knowledge and insight, that the Phillipa of 1366 was at that date Chaucer's wife. In or before that year he married, it was said, Philippa Roet, daughter of Sir Paon de Roet of Hainault, Guienne King of Arms, who came to England in Queen Philippa's retinue in 1328.
On February 27th he appeared at the office of Madame de Lamotte's lawyer in the rue du Paon, and, with all the persuasion of an artful tongue, demanded the power of attorney on that lady's behalf, saying that he had, by private contract, just paid a hundred thousand livres on the total amount of purchase, which money was now deposited with a notary.
"Sworn to. And now the agreement entered into, good-bye." "What do you mean by 'good-bye?" "Of course you can now return to your inn." "To my inn?" "Yes; are you not lodging at the sign of the Beau Paon?" "Montalais, Montalais, you now betray that you were aware of my being at Fontainebleau." "Well; and what does that prove, except that I occupy myself about you more than you deserve?" "Hum!"
I found her alone, and asking her whether she could spare me a few minutes of her time, I handed to her the letter which I had received from Madame Paon, and then made her acquainted with that portion of my history with which she had been unacquainted. As I spoke my courage revived, and my voice became firm I felt that I was no longer a girl.
Alured de Pentonville, eighteenth Earl of Bagnigge, Viscount Paon of Islington, Baron Pancras, Kingscross, and a Baronet, was, like too many of our young men of ton, utterly blase, although only in his twenty-fourth year.
"I should be very pleased, M. Mille." "Here it is, then, just as I found it in a fifteenth-century manuscript "Cecile, the wife of Nicolas Gaubert, a jeweller on the Pont-au-Change, after having led an honest and chaste life for many years, and being now past her prime, became infatuated with Jean Violle, the Countess de Maubec's page, who lived at the Hotel du Paon on the Place de Greve.
As for Saint-Aignan, he carried off Malicorne with him to his apartments, showing him a thousand attentions, enchanted to have so close at hand the very two men who, even supposing De Guiche were to remain silent, could give him the best information about the maids of honor. In the first place, let us supply our readers with a few details about the inn called Beau Paon.
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