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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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oke the music of the virginals.In such society the hours flew lightly by. The wound healed, and in six weeksBayard was himself again. On the day of his departure the lady of the house came into his apartment,and besought him, as their preserver, to accept a certain little box of steel. Thebox contained two thousand five hundred golden ducats. Bayard took it. Butfive hundred ducats, he said, I desire you to divide for me among the nunswhose convents have been pillaged. Then, turning to her daughters, Ladies,he said, I owe you more than thanks for your kind care of me. Soldiers donot carry with them pretty things for ladies ; but I pray each of you to acceptfrom me a thousand ducats, to aid your marriage portions. And with that hepoured the coins into their aprons. His horse was brought, and he was about to mount, when the girls camestealing down the steps into the castle court, each with a little present, workedby their own hands, which they desired him to accept. One brought a pair of
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BAYARD TAKING LEAVE OF THE LADIES OF BRESCIA. CHEVALIER BAYARD 161 armlets, made of gold and silver thread ; the other, a purse of crimson satin.And this was all the spoil that Bayard carried from the inestimable wealth ofBrescia—the little keepsakes of two girls whom he had saved. The scenes of Bayards life at which we have been glancing have been chieflythose of his great feats of arms. And so it must be still; for it is these of whichthe details have survived in history. And yet it was such incidents as these atBrescia which made the fame of Bayard what it was and what it is. To his foes,he was the flower of chivalry ; but to his friends, he was, besides, the most adoredof men. It is said that in his native province of Dauphiny, at his death, morethan a hundred ancient soldiers owed to him the roof that covered their old age;that more than a hundred orphan girls had received their marriage portions fromhis bounty. But of such acts the vast majority are unrecorded ; for these aren

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