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Each statue is a personal friend of mine and since I was a boy I have been in love with the delicious nymph with the shell at the bottom of the horse-shoe descent before you come to the tapis vert on the right hand side. She has two dimples in her back I like to touch them . Why did I not come here sooner?
Some of them struck up the famous song which, beyond all others, best expressed the gay, rollicking spirit of the French nation and of the times of the old regime: "'Vive Henri Quatre! Vive le Roi vaillant! Ce diable a quatre A le triple talent, De boire et de battre, Et d'etre un vert galant!"
And also that, the number of bars being uncertain, I assume the bearing to be 'barry, that is, having an even number of bars; had it been odd, as of seven bars, it should have been blazoned, argent; three bars, sable; or, if so divided, sable, three bars argent. This lively bearing was St. Pulinari's. C. Sesto of Borgo. Or; a viper, vert. 2.
He tore the envelope open. "Good Lord, skipper!" he said. "Here's my blessed movement order, to report at the Gare du Vert at eight p.m. this very day. I'm only four hours too late. What the dickens shall I do?" Harold whistled. "Show it me," he said. "'The following personnel to report at Gare du Vert ... at 8 p.m. 28th inst'" he read. "You're for it, old bird," he continued cheerfully.
'How sparing you English are of your crests and arms! I fully expected to see the Jocelyns' over my bed; but no four posts totally without ornament! Sleep, indeed, must be the result of dire fatigue in such a bed. The Jocelyn crest is a hawk in jesses. The Elburne arms are, Or, three falcons on a field, vert.
Beyond this lovely fountain the green level of the tapis vert fell away to the great Bassin d'Appollon, where the sun-god disported himself among his Tritons, the foamy tops of the great jets of water blown from their shell-trumpets rising high in the air and scattered into spray by the night wind. It was a scene not to be forgotten, and Mr.
"If you don't mind I'll stay outside in the hall, and rush in to act as altar-boy, when she agrees to 'vert." "I'm going for all your ridicule, Arthur." "No objection, but keep a cool head, and bear in mind that I am in the hall outside." He suspected the motive of Sister Claire, both in making this appointment, and in playing at conversion with Sister Magdalen.
Pucello Marceliano at four hundred livres and Edme Marceliano at two hundred livres were in the employ of Henri II. It was the former who laid out the magnificent Parterre de Diane at Chenonceaux, where Catherine de Médici later, being smitten with the skill of the Florentines, gave the further commission of the Jardin Vert, which was intended to complete this parterre, to Henri le Calabrese and Jean Collo.
We breakfast on the stone terrace, with boughs of trees and clouds for our roof, and as we look out over the masses of blue flowers and the smooth green tapis vert, over the arched trelliage with its fountains and its marbles, the great trees back of our domain frame the supremely beautiful towers of the Château le Magnificent, and we are far happier than anyone deserves to be in this wicked world!
"My duty," replied the other, "is to range daily throughout all the purlieus, or pourallees, as Master Potts more properly terms them, and disafforested lands, and inquire into all trespasses and offences against vert or venison, and present them at the king's next court of attachment or swainmote.
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