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It quite recalled what one had always read of feudal France, when the seigneur would be off with his retainers hunting or fighting, and the châtelaine, left alone in the château, spent her time in her "bower" surrounded by her maidens, all working at the wonderful tapestries one sees still in some of the old churches and convents.
But there is no one in the parish who reads German, and it occurred to the Seigneur and myself that, understanding French so well, by chance you may understand German also, and would, perhaps, translate the work for us." "I read German easily and speak it fairly," Charley answered, relieved; "and you are welcome to my services." The Cure's pale face flushed with pleasure.
Giuseppe stood in his patronizing way quite the grand seigneur with the light falling on his solitaire, making it so brilliant that it fascinated and at the same time fatigued my eyes. "The name of my parrot? Monsieur De Kock, he know that well. It is Felicite you catch Fe-li-ci-te. It was the name of my wife." Then his wife was dead. De Kock must have made a mistake.
A young seigneur, the Chevalier de Merlus, whom the ladies Lespoisse had brought with them, organized the beats. Bluebeard had the best packs of hounds and the largest turnout in the countryside. The ladies rivalled the ardour of the gentlemen in hunting the deer.
See there!" he held out his wrist. The Seigneur nodded. "But I got to Fournel's first. I put the will into his hands. "I told him Madame Madelinette was following. Then I went to bring the constables to his house to arrest her when he had finished with her." He laughed a brutal laugh, which deepened the strange glittering look in Louis' eyes. "When I came an hour later, she was there.
But he little knows the true Parisian who imagines a seigneur of the Chaussee d'Antin, the oracle of those with whom he lived, and one who knew life so well that he had preached prudence to a seigneur of the Faubourg like Alain de Rochebriant, stooping to apply for the wages of thirty sons.
"Then what do you make of the goddess's head?" asked John Derringham. "Was that his, too?" "Yes, I suppose so," she answered. "He was a great, grand seigneur we know of that and had traveled much in Italy when a young man, and stayed at Florence especially.
Bets were made, too, on the chances of his return. Louis XI. was a very pleasant person when news was brought him that he liked to hear. Commines and Bouchage together had told him about the defeat of Morat and had each received two hundred silver marks. It was a Seigneur de Lude who had the good luck to bring him letters from Craon recounting the battle of Nancy.
But Michelin was right, and the old Seigneur, Sir Henri Robitaille, who was a judge of men, knew he was right, as did also Hennepin the school-master, whose despair Jacques had been, for he never worked at his lessons as a boy, and yet he absorbed Latin and mathematics by some sure but unexplainable process.
She stepped back as I shut the door and turned the key in the lock. I put my finger to my lips, for she seemed about to cry out. "Hush!" said I. "I watch for those who love her. I am here to serve her and you." "You are a servant of the Seigneur's?" she said, the alarm passing out of her face. "I served the Seigneur, good Mother," I answered, "and I would lay down my life for ma'm'selle."
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