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The very suburbs of Paris were infested by the forays of this desperate routier, as such highway robbers were called; the supplies of previsions were cut off, and the citizens had petitioned King Henry that he would relieve them from so intolerable an enemy.
I am a vieux routier, an old campaigner in this world of men and women. Time was when but that has nothing to do with this story. At any rate I think I ought to know something about women's eyes. "Did you ever see anything so idiotic?" asked Evadne, dragging me round. "I think I did once," said I. "When was that?" "Ah!" said I. "Do tell me, Uncle Tony."
The passage by which the conspirators entered, and by which the Earl was conveyed away, goes by the name of Mortimer's Hole to the present day. A fourth class of cliff castle, neither the habitation of a routier nor the residence of a feudal seigneur, is that which commands an important ford, or the road or waterway to a town, and which was, in point of fact, an outpost of the garrison.
At Lagny, with her own men and the Scots, the Maid fought and took one Franquet d'Arras, a Burgundian "routier," or knight of the road, who plundered that country without mercy. Him the Maid would have exchanged for an Armagnac of Paris, the host of the Bear Inn, then held in duresse by the English, for his share in a plot to yield Paris to the King.
I have loved this lady since she was twelve years old. 'Are you a man of substance, my friend? 'We have a good fief, my lord. My father holds of the Church of Rouen, and the Church of the Duke. I serve with a hundred spears where I may, a routier if nothing better offer. 'If I give you Jehane, what do you give me? 'Thanks, my good lord, and faith, and long service.
She had brought him flowers, cigarettes of the exquisite kind that Doggie used to smoke, chocolates.... She sat down by his bedside. "All this is more than gracious, Mrs. Manningtree," said Phineas. "To a vieux routier like me, it is a wee bit overwhelming." "It's very little to do for Doggie's best friend." Phineas's eyes twinkled.
Ludovic," said his captain, "hush! thou beast, man! If thou dost not respect my gray hairs, because I have been e'en too much of a routier myself, respect the boy's youth and innocence, and let us have no more of such unbecoming daffing."
He had heard a Scots tongue among his foes, though national feeling had made him utterly silent on that head to the Duke of Bedford, and he guessed it to belong to a certain M'Kay, whose clan regarded themselves as at feud with the Stewarts, and of whom he had heard as living a wild routier life.
"We reck little of names here, especially when it may be convenient to have them forgotten. He is a Free Companion, a routier, brave enough, but more ready at the sack than the assault, and loving best to plunder, waste, and plunder again, or else to fleece such sheep as our friend here." "How could such a man gain entrance to the Prince's pavilion?"
Routier speaks of ankylosis of the tongue of seventeen years' duration. Jurist records such abnormal mobility of the tongue that the patient was able to project the tongue into the nasopharynx. Wherry and Winslow record similar instances. There have been individuals with bifid tongues, after the normal type of serpents and saurians, and others who possessed a supernumerary tongue. Rev.
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