Gogo was coloring the quarterings of the Pasquier family--_la maison de Pasquier_, as it was called--in a printed book (_Armorial General du Maine et de l'Anjou_), according to the instructions that were given underneath. He used one of Madame Liard's three-sou boxes, and the tints left much to be desired. We looked over his shoulder and read the picturesque old jargon, which sounds even prettier and more comforting and more idiotic in French than in English. It ran thus-- "Pasquier (branche des Seigneurs de la Mariere et du Hirel), party de 4 pieces et coupe de 2. "Au premier, de Herault, qui est de ecartele de gueules et d'argent. "Au deux, de Budes, qui est d'or au pin de sinople. "Au trois, d'Aubery--qui est d'azur a trois croissants d'argent. "Au quatre, de Busson qui est d'argent au lyon de sable arme couronne et lampasse d'or," And so on, through the other quarterings: Bigot, Epinay, Malestroit, Mathefelon. And finally, "Sur le tout, de Pasquier qui est d'or a trois lyons d'azur, au franc quartier ecartele des royames de Castille et de Leon." Presently my mother came home from the English chapel in the Rue Marboeuf, where she had been with Sarah, the English maid. Lunch was announced, and we were left alone with the family papers. With infinite precautions, for fear of blurring the dream, we were able to find what we wanted to find--namely, that we were the great-great-grandchildren and only possible living descendants of Gatienne, the fair glassmaker and composer of "Le Chant du Triste Commensal." Thus runs the descent-- Jean Aubery, Seigneur du Brail, married Anne Busson. His daughter, Gatienne Aubery, Dame du Brail, married Mathurin Budes, Seigneur de Verny le Moustier et de Monhoudeard. --------------------------^-------------------------- / \ Anne Budes, Dame de Jeanne Budes, Dame du Verny le Moustier, married Brail et de Monhoudeard, Guy Herault, Comte married Ulric de Boismorinel. Seraskier. Jeanne Francois Herault de Otto Seraskier, violinist, Boismorinel married married Teresa Pulci. Francois Pasquier de la Mariere. Jean Pasquier de la Mariere Johann Seraskier, M.D., married Catherine married Laura Desmond. Ibbetson-Biddulph. Pierre Pasquier de la Mariere Mary Seraskier, Duchess of (_alias_ Peter Ibbetson, Towers. convict).