Her rights were not many, but yet the feudal chatelaine occupied a position of some dignity and importance.
A chatelaine bag, slung round the waist of the dead girl, had evidently been marked with initials, for the leather showed the holes in which the letters had been fastened, and the traces of the knife employed in their hurried removal.
La Chatelaine de Vergy has been sometimes confounded with Le Chatelaine de Coucy, the lover of La Dame du Fayel.
Full of curiosity, Erna waited to be summoned as chatelaine of the castle, to go through the formality of according the hospitalities of the house to the guest.
Thou hast met him as if thou wouldst remind him that while he hath no great possessions thou art chatelaine of the richest domain in the Ober-Schwarzwald.
She amused herself with keeping pets, those little dogs which scamper so gaily round the borders of manuscripts, or play so gallant a part in romances like the Chatelaine of Vergi.
The chatelaine or mistress of a manor, when not busied with the care of an estate, amused herself in the pursuit of fashion; even the business-like Margaret Paston hankered after a scarlet robe.
Becky reposed flat upon the chatelaine bag and waved her still damp shoes exultantly.
Becky Zalmonowsky stood so closely over the lake that she shed the chatelaine bag into its shallow depths and did irreparable damage to her gala costume in her attempts to "dibble" for her property.
One penny was in her shoe, another in her stocking, two in the lining of her hat, and one in the large and dilapidated chatelaine bag which dangled at her knees.
It was his first speech for an hour, for Becky's misadventure with the chatelaine bag and the water-lake had made him more than ever sure that his own method of safe-keeping was the best.
He was evidently commending these to Persis, laying them at her feet, begging her to become at once the chatelaine of this splendor.
Persis also saw how good it was, and she could possess it all, become the chatelaine of this place.
Such was the Chatelaine of Kaafiord,--as perfect a type of Norse beauty as ever my Saga lore had conjured up!
She always wore black, with a white apron, and a chatelaine of keys, scissors, and needle-case hung on a long ribbon at her waist.
She held her peace while the great lady was wooed and won, while the marriage joys came with the purple vintage time, while the people were made drunk at the bridal of their chatelaine in those hot, ruddy, luscious autumn days.
I like the blue," said the chatelaine laconically, "and the pigeons fly close by my window.
There were six rings, two brooches and a chatelaine watch.
Near her hand on the table lay a small chatelaine purse.
Lady MacDonald follows her example, her jingling chatelaine clanks irritatingly, as if protesting at being found in such company.
She has a quantity of jingling golden ornaments hanging from a chatelaine at her waist, a gold crown on the handle of her lorgnette, and so many rings on her long pink fingers that they bulge over her knuckles.
Why beat about the bush in this provoking way, she argued, since the chatelaine was completely in their power?
What would people say when the last whimsey of the chatelaine leaked out?
In the morning, the chatelaine looked much the same as usual, but for the circle of bistre round her eyes, which had grown deeper, giving an air of lassitude.
For thirty years, as chatelaine of Le Mans, she watched its new Gothic sanctuary rising.
Mary Magdalene, carrying her vase of ointment, appears as a chatelaine of the Middle Ages with the bandeau under her chin then fashionable; Aliénor of Aquitaine could not have been very unlike her.
Sechard, and was then the modestchatelaine of La Verberie, at Marsac.
The vicomte had unknowingly been the executioner of the chatelaine of Montegnac.
He had other aspirations which he was able to satisfy at the home of an illustrious chatelaine of the vicinity, Mlle.
For once theirchatelaine was as chill and disdainful and impassable as the chatelaine of Tsu should be.
She would be consort of the Hojo, chatelaine of Tsu, and as she thought of it, her bosom glowed with gratified ambition, and she there and then determined that in the smiling future the castle should contain no concubine.
As chatelaineof Tsu, your place is by my side," announced the Daimio sternly.
By the last act of the doomed chatelaine she had won back the respect of the warriors, for they perceived, too late, that her gentleness had naught akin with cowardice.
That she (the chatelaine of Tsu) should cower under the anathema of a peasant.
And to the amazement of the maidens, the chatelaine took from a screen a mantle of costly furs, and bidding her attendants follow with a candle, moved rapidly away down a dark corridor which led to the centre of the castle.
When a chatelaine is called on to sympathise and exult with her lord, why does she show disgust?
A chicken-hearten rival, easily vanquished, this high-bred chatelaine would prove, since she would obtain no support from her spouse.
The dreary chatelaine was sitting at an upper casement of the castle, wistfully gazing into the night.
A flash of cerise plume, a jangle of chatelaine jewelry, and Ysobel disappeared behind one of the doors, her many-angled silhouette flashing against the far side of the ground glass.
The old chatelaine did not approve of luxury, even such small luxuries as were almost necessities in that vast pile of stone which was the inheritance of the Norman Giffards.
The knife on my chatelaine caught in the lichen and dragged at the chain.
I always wear a little gold chatelaine that belonged to Ambrosine Eustasie de Calincourt and is marked with her coronet and initials; it has a tiny knife among the other things hanging from it.
It is bound in brown leather and has the same arms and coronet upon it that my chatelaine has--the arms of Ambrosine Eustasie de Calincourt and an "A.
The brothers treated their chatelaine with such an increase of punctilio and ceremony as should perforce stop the idle gossip of provincial busybodies.
But the cherished hope which had been the means of bringing the chatelaine to Lorge; the hope to which she clung with the tenacity of love.
The chatelaine sits alone on her balcony, gazing far away into the distance.
Meanwhile-much agitated, sorely disturbed--the Abbe Constantin introduced into his vicarage the new Chatelaine of Longueval.
The new chatelaine of Longueval would not go to mass.
