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That is my story of the coat in return for yours of the bird. The hero of it took the name of Salomon de Montguichet after this performance, and my pursuivant devised him a blazon, with the legend, Entra per me." "He did very well," said Prosper, "though he should have fought with Renny, and not stabbed him in the dark. But why did he bring the wicket-gates?"
At length, on the evening of the third of July, a pursuivant, accompanied by an advanced guard of horsemen, announced the king, and presently on the north road appeared the dust of his approach. Nearer they came, all on horseback, a court of officers.
Quipsome Hal was interrogated as to how he had come, and the Cardinal and Sir Thomas agreed that the river would be as speedy a way of returning as by land; but they decided that a King's pursuivant should accompany him, otherwise there would be no chance of forcing his way in time through the streets, guarded by the Howard retainers.
And besides fool that he was! his brothers had again attacked a train of waggons on the highway and would soon be called to account as robbers. This would certainly lead the Swiss and others to investigate his own past, and the Pursuivant at Arms excluded from joust and tourney whoever "injured trade or merchant."
Every office that pomp could devise for a king's court was to be found in the household of this magnificent prelate, master of the horse and the hounds, chamberlain, treasurer, pursuivant, herald, seneschal, captain of the body-guard, etc., and all emulously sought for and proudly held by gentlemen of the first blood and birth.
So he caused a great knocking to be made while all were at dinner, and the sham pursuivant went through all the forms of citing him, and the whole household were in much alarm, till he explained the jest; but the earnest came only a few days afterwards.
Many more men of family were in the like position with himself than had been the case when his brother had begun life; moreover, he had personally achieved some standing and distinction through the 'Pursuivant'. General Mohun was delighted with his companion, whom he presented to his sister as the speedy consequence of her recommendation.
So I told him at length all that hath already been told, giving as far as I could the credit to Jorian and Boris, as indeed was only their desert. Whereupon the tale being finished, the Prince said: "Have the two archers up!" And while the pursuivant had gone for them, the old Councillor leaned across the table and whispered: "Enter Field-Marshal Jorian and General Boris!"
She was not greatly distressed that the Montauban pursuivant turned out to have only the records of the Provencal nobility, and was forced to communicate with his brethren at Bordeaux before he could bring down the Ribaumont genealogy to the actual generation; and so slow was communication, so tardy the mode of doing everything, that the chestnut leaves were falling and autumn becoming winter before the blazoned letter showed Ribaumont, de Picardie 'Gules, fretty or, a canton of the last, a leopard, sable.
Mistress Margaret turned round in her seat; and said in a perfectly natural voice, "Why, Anthony, my lad!" There was a murmur from one or two of the men. "Silence," called out the magistrate. "We will finish the other affair first," and he made a motion to hold Anthony for a moment. "Now then, do any of you men know this gentleman?" A pursuivant stepped out. "Mr.
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