Belchamber

Sturgis, Howard Overing · 1920

Westminster ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, LTD. Belchamber is one of the most beautiful places in England. The name, if not the house, dates from days when Norman-French was the polite language of our kings; the reigning monarch, some early Henry or Edward, alighting for the night, as was the habit of reigning monarchs, at the house of his vassal, and having been especially pleased with something about the apartment prepared for his use, is said to have remarked in high good humour, ‘_Pardie! tu as là une belle chambre_.’ Something of old-world scandal hung about the legend (which in its authorised form is just a little bare and dull fo…

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