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All the women began to speak, but Annabel de Chaumont could talk faster than the four others combined, so they knew our plight before we learned that they were the Grignon and Tank families, who were going into the west to find settlement and had made the house their camp for one night.
When we went back to the house, dejected with physical weariness, I unstrapped the blanket and the food which Madame Ursule had sent, and brought them to Pierre Grignon. He threw the blanket on the settee, laid out bread and meat on the table, and ate, both of us blaming ourselves for sending the Indian on the other side of the river.
Visits to various institutions of learning interested me much, among these a second visit to the Agricultural College at Grignon and the wonderful Conservatoire des Arts et M<e'>tiers, which gave me new ideas for the similar departments at Cornell, and a morning at the <E'>cole Normale, where I saw altogether the best teaching of a Latin classic that I have ever known.
Pierre Grignon and his wife were god-father and god-mother to most of the children born at La Baye. If a child was left without father and mother, Pierre Grignon's house became its asylum until a home could be found for it.
"He's old friend to everybody that comes to Green Bay. I'll never get so much as a sign painted to hang in front of the Palace Tavern." I gave him twice his charges and he said: "What a loss it was to enterprise in the Bay when Pierre Grignon came here and built for the whole United States!" The Grignon house, whether built for the whole United States or not, was the largest in Green Bay.
Madame Tank put up her hand, and the other stopped. "But that was a child," Madame Grignon then objected. "Nine years ago. He would be about eighteen now." "How old are you?" they both put to me. Remembering what my father had told Doctor Chantry, I was obliged to own that I was about eighteen.
When the turkey was relieved from his pouching and sent to bed, Pierre Grignon took his violin. The girls answered with jigs that ended a reel, when couples left the general figure to jig it off. When Eagle had watched them awhile she started up, spread her skirts in a sweeping courtesy, and began to dance a gavotte. The fiddler changed his tune, and the girls rested and watched her.
In his engagement he figures as Amable Grignon, of the Parish of Green Bay, Upper Canada, and he receives $400 "and found in tobacco and shoes and two doges," besides "the usual equipment given to clerks." He afterwards returned to a post on the Wisconsin river.
The region took hold upon me: particularly when one who was neither a warehouseman nor a Canadian fur hunter, hurried in and took me by the hand. "I am Pierre Grignon," he said.
"This company of gentry will be widely scattered when it disperses home," she told us. "There is at least one man from over-seas." I thought of the Grignon and Tank families, who were probably on the road to Albany. Miss Chantry bespoke her brother's attention. "There he is." "Who?" the doctor inquired. "His highness," she incisively responded, "Prince Jerome Bonaparte."
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