"Dinner is served, my Lady!" repeated Felix, with a bow. "But my
Lady must excuse! The kitchen has been full of habitans all day.
The Trifourchettes, the Doubledents, and all the best eaters in
Tilly have been here. After obeying my Lady's commands to give them
all they could eat we have had difficulty in saving anything for my
Lady's own table."
"No matter, Felix, we shall say grace all the same. I could
content myself with bread and water, to give fish and flesh to my
censitaires, who are working so willingly on the King's corvee! But
that must be my apology to you, Pierre Philibert and the Chevalier
La Corne, for a poorer dinner than I could wish."
"Oh, I feel no misgivings, my Lady!" remarked La Corne St. Luc,
laughing. "Felix Baudoin is too faithful a servitor to starve his
mistress for the sake of the Trifourchettes, the Doubledents, and
all the best eaters in the Seigniory! No! no! I will be bound your
Ladyship will find Felix has tolled and tithed from them enough to
secure a dinner for us all--come, Amelie, with me.
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