Merivel a Man of His Time
“Now, all at once, I could see and hear Buzzards circling above me in the twilight, so I attempted to scramble to my feet to avoid being pecked to death. As I brushed the grit and dust from my coat, a Servant in a periwig arrived at my side and gave me his arm to lean on, and lighted my way to the house.
I discovered myself in a wide hall, paved with stone flags, where a fire of pine cones was burning. Louise descended a wide staircase. She said my name softly. Behind her came her Father, the Baron, a tall man with a bald crown to his head, but with long white hair flowing out beneath, like the petals of a ragged daisy.
I bowed to them. They regarded me with plain astonishment, as though I might have been the Man in the Moon, suddenly fallen out of it. Near them two wigged Footmen stood at brisk attention, casting only sidelong glances at the blood from my leg dripping onto the stone.
‘Forgive me my sudden appearance,’ I managed to stammer. ‘I had hoped to make a more … appropriate arr...ival, mounted on a horse, but all I could get at Bellegarde was a mule, and veritably it liked me no more than I liked it and so threw me into the dust, and …’ ‘Hush,’ said Louise.MoreLess
I discovered myself in a wide hall, paved with stone flags, where a fire of pine cones was burning. Louise descended a wide staircase. She said my name softly. Behind her came her Father, the Baron, a tall man with a bald crown to his head, but with long white hair flowing out beneath, like the petals of a ragged daisy.
I bowed to them. They regarded me with plain astonishment, as though I might have been the Man in the Moon, suddenly fallen out of it. Near them two wigged Footmen stood at brisk attention, casting only sidelong glances at the blood from my leg dripping onto the stone.
‘Forgive me my sudden appearance,’ I managed to stammer. ‘I had hoped to make a more … appropriate arr...ival, mounted on a horse, but all I could get at Bellegarde was a mule, and veritably it liked me no more than I liked it and so threw me into the dust, and …’ ‘Hush,’ said Louise.MoreLess
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