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At this unspeakable desecration William's face was that of a high priest stricken at the altar. "She's visitin' Miss May Parcher," added the deadly Jane. "But the Parchers are awful tired of her. They wish she'd go home, but they don't like to tell her so." One after another these insults from the canaille fell upon the ears of William.
The punctilious Gorringe was plainly horrified at the proximity to her mistress of these canaille, and the mistress was not so absorbed it would seem but what she felt the affront to seemliness in a servant's seeing her pushed and shoved aside treated with slight regard or none. Necessary either to leave the scene with lofty disapproval, or else make light of the discomfort.
The Count caught the popular contagion, and after exchanging tears and kisses with patriots whom a week before he had called canaille, he swore eternal fidelity to the Republic. The fashion of the moment suddenly became Napoleonic, and with the coup d'etat the Republic was metamorphosed into an Empire.
You are sure that you are made of different clay the canaille of street mud, for instance, and you of the fine white stuff from which they mould Dresden china. You are quite a study to me, my love. I expect to see you marry a pavior yet, either one who lays down or one who tears up paving-stones." But I had only laughed again. She plumed herself on being cosmopolitan even to her principles.
"Who can that be?" thought I: and I went out of the door, and looked over the banisters, as the noise continued. "You must not come here to beat Englishmen, I can tell you," roared one of the waiters. "What do we care for your foreign counts?" "Sacre, canaille?" cried the other party, in a contemptuous voice, which I well knew. "Ay, canal! we'll duck you in the canal, if you don't mind."
The spectators laughed heartily, and the lieutenant slowly put back his sword, saying peevishly: "It's a little too much to be obliged to hear a sermon from the canaille." "What! Canaille!" cried a smith, who held the second cudgel. "Do you call those canaille who feed you noble idlers by duties and taxes?
He loosed his hold slowly though, and reluctantly and rose to his feet, passing his hand over his eyes in a strange, bewildered way; but in five seconds his wonderful self-command asserted itself, and he spoke as coolly as ever. "A thousand pardons. One does forget one's self sometimes when the canaille are provoking, but I ought to have remembered what was due to you."
I hear that —— have fled out towards Arezzo; all the canaille of the villages of the place were enlisted to defend the city, and it was the talk of the country that had the Swiss been beaten, the city was to have been pillaged by that armed mob. There is more in it all than one sees at first; and clearly it was an affair got up to make out a case against the Pope.
"M. Roque, a French merchant of respectability long settled in Athens, asserted with the most amusing gravity, 'Sir, they are the same canaille that existed in the days of Themistocles. The ancients banished Themistocles; the moderns cheat Monsieur Roque: thus great men have ever been treated.
At present she is very black and very ugly, besides being cruelly mutilated in different parts of her body, which I suppose have been amputated, and converted into tobacco-stoppers; but once a year she is dressed in very rich attire, and carried in procession, with a silver boat, provided at the expence of the sailors. That vanity which characterises the French extends even to the canaille.
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