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The ever impressive Cathedral of Notre Dame d'Amiens is in most English minds the beau ideal of a French cathedral. It is contemporary with Salisbury in period, at least, but it has little to remind one of the actual features of this edifice. Often associated therewith, as a similar type, it has little in reality in common, except that each is representative of a supreme style.
"In this, beau sire," answered Hastings, "you speak as a king and a warrior should, and I will do my best to assert your royal motto, 'Modus et ordo. If I can but promise that your Highness has for a while dismissed the Woodville lords, rely upon it that ere two months I will place under your truncheon an army worthy of the liege lord of hardy England."
And Kathleen was given strength sufficient for each case as it presented itself; and now the fag end of the season died out; the last noble and indigent foreigner had been eluded; the last old beau foiled; the last squab-headed dancing man successfully circumvented.
In spite of these enlivening touches, the conversation was like to suffer another long interruption, when the lieutenant, unwilling to conceal any of his accomplishments that could be displayed in his present situation, offered to regale the company with a song; and, interpreting our silence into a desire of hearing, began to warble a fashionable air the first stanza of which he pronounced thus: "Would you task the moon-tide hair, To yon flagrant beau repair.
He stopped and tried to catch more as Madame went down the walk singing low to herself. "Derrière Chez mon père Il-y-avait un grand oiseau. la, la, la, la C'était beau ça, c'était beau." "The procession of our Fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power."
I motioned to them to bring some of their handywork to me; and in an instant a dozen wreaths were at my disposal. One of them I put round the apology for a hat which I had been forced to construct for myself out of palmetto-leaves, and some of the others I converted into a splendid girdle. These operations finished, with the slow and dignified step of a full-dressed beau I ascended the rock.
For six weeks the gay little world moves on in blissful ignorance of antecedents and reputations; no questions are asked, no information volunteered save that disclosed by the hotel register, information frequently of apocryphal value. The gay beau of the night may be the industrious clerk of the morrow; the baron of the summer may be the barber of the winter; but what difference does it make?
"Martha," she said, solemnly, "I'm afraid you've done wrong in taking that sailor man." "Why, Rachel?" "He's a strange man." "I don't see anything strange about him," said Jack. "He spoke to me about having a beau," said Aunt Rachel, in a shocked tone. Jack burst into a fit of hearty laughter. "Perhaps he's going to make you an offer, Aunt Rachel," he said.
"It's half your own nephew's, Jack Dane's, luggage," said I, breathless and pulsing. "I'm going to England with him, and he's going to make me happy all the rest of my life, for we mean to be married, in spite of your cruelty which has made him poor, and turned him into a chauffeur. But here he comes now. Beau must remember him." "Beau with Jack Dane!" gasped the old lady. "Jack Dane's found Beau?
One was to Van, with Beth's request; the other was, of course, to her brother. Bostwick met the proud old beau at the corner of the street. "Say, Uncle, what did I tell you," said Billy at once. "This time it's the biggest errand yet." Bostwick had wondered if he might not catch Mr. Stitts in some such service as he boasted now, and his wit was worthy of his nature.
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