human
The Author presents to you, valiant and courageous Noblesse, the _Diamond Armorial_, which, despite the malice of the Times and the Flight of Centuries, will carefully preserve the Lustre of your name and the Glory of your Arms emblazoned in their true colours. This glorious heraldic material is a Science of State. Though it is not absolutely necessary that all gentlemen should know how to compose and blazon arms, it is Very Important for them to know their Own and not be ignorant of Those of Others. It is the office of the Heralds to form, charge, break, crown and add Supporters to, the coats of those who by some Brave and Generous action have shown their High and Lofty virtues; whereof Kings make use to recompense to their gentry this mark of Honour and Dignity; that so they may Impel each to goodly conduct on those occasions where Men of Stout Hearts acquire Glory for themselves, and Their Posterity....
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The glorious house of _MONTMORENCY_ beareth a shield of gold with a scarlet cross, cantoned with sixteen azure eagles, four by four.
human
Seven weeks, mon Dieu! the quickest mail I ever got from France! From time to time, while he listened, his eyes glanced out with contentment upon the possessions with which he was surrounded--upon the rich-coloured stubble of his clearings stretching as far as eye could see down the Assumption, with their flocks, herds, and brush fences; upon the hamlet to which his enterprise had given birth, and where he could see, in one cottage, his _sabotiers_ bent over their benches adding to their piles of wooden shoes; in others, women at the spinning wheel or loom, making the cloths of which he had improved the pattern, or weaving the fine and beautiful arrow-sashes, those _ceintures fléchées_ of which the art is now lost, yet still known as snowshoers' rareties by the name of
gpt
L'Assomption sashes