CHAPTER IV. TITHONUS

A youth came riding towards a palace gate, And from the palace came a child of sin And took him by the curls and led him in! Where sat a company with heated eyes. Tennyson, A VISION OF SIN

It was in the month of June that Berenger de Ribaumont first came in sight of Paris. His grandfather had himself begun by taking him to London and presenting him to Queen Elizabeth, from whom the lad's good mien procured him a most favourable reception. She willingly promised that on which Lord Walwyn's heart was set, namely, that his title and rank should be continued to his grandson; and an ample store of letter of recommendation to Sir Francis Walsingham, the Ambassador, and all others who could be of service in the French court, were to do their utmost to provide him with a favourable reception there.

Then, with Mr. Adderley and four or five servants, he had crossed the Channel, and had gone first to Chateau Leurre, where he was rapturously welcomed by the old steward Osbert. The old man had trained up his son Landry, Berenger's foster-brother, to become his valet, and had him taught all the arts of hair-dressing and surgery that were part of the profession of a gentleman's body-servant; and the youth, a smart, acuter young Norman, became a valuable addition to the suite, the guidance of which, through a foreign country, their young master did not find very easy. Mr. Adderley thought he knew French very well, through books, but the language he spoke was not available, and he soon fell into a state of bewilderment rather hard on his pupil, who, though a very good boy, and crammed very full of learning, was still nothing more than a lad of eighteen in all matters of prudence and discretion.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. What was the month someone arrived in France?
2. Where had he been before?
3. Did he impress anyone while there?
4. Whom?
5. Was he travelling with his Aunt?
6. Who had brought him there?
7. Was he hoping to be knighted?
8. How many servants were there?
9. Did anyone accompany them somewhere?
10. Whom?
11. WAs anyone groomed for a special position?
12. What position?
13. Was he a stranger?
14. Who was he?
15. Was he taught to paint?
16. What did he learn?
17. Was there a language barrier?
18. WHat language did he speak?
19. Who trained in French?
20. WAs his student uneducated?

Numbered answers:
1. June
2. London
3. Yes
4. Queen Elizabeth
5. No
6. His grandfather
7. No
8. Four or five
9. Yes
10. Mr. Adderley and four or five servants.
11. Yes
12. Valet
13. No
14. Landry, Berenger's foster-brother.
15. No
16. All the arts of hair-dressing and surgery that were part of the profession of a gentleman's body-servant.
17. Yes
18. unknown
19. Mr. Adderley
20. No