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The impromptu part of the programme began earlier than it was advertised. Some whisper of the plan had leaked through the chinks of the wall between the shanty and the stable. When the crowd came shambling into the cabin, snickering and nudging one another, Jean and Pierre were standing by the stove at the upper end of the long table. "Down with the canaille!" shouted Jean.
The Prince welcomed each newcomer pleasantly, and assigned him to his place. When all were seated he spoke: "I have called you together, gentlemen," he said "because we have very important business to transact. The evidences multiply that we are probably on the eve of another outbreak of the restless canaille; it may be upon a larger scale than any we have yet encountered.
Well, therefore, may it be imagined that the pipe is "the friend of the people;" and that, not only of the canaille, the "great unwashed," but the entire nation; who in this day of general enlightenment and mental percipiency, have not failed to distinguish its claims, and to "render homage where homage is due."
Instead of this set of Grub Street authors, the mere canaille of letters, this corporation of Mendicity, this ragged regiment of genius suing at the corners of streets in forma pauperis, give me the gentleman and scholar, with a good house over his head and a handsome table 'with wine of Attic taste' to ask his friends to, and where want and sorrow never come.
Suppose, till then, you return to your Latin, and prepare to use that tongue with me, since you are averse to one understood by all the canaille. Adieu. I have literally given you a folio volume. Yours, my dear Theodosia, P. S. The arrangement you speak of proposing in your letter for an interview has determined me. I shall there fore sail certainly in a few days. Winds be propitious! Miss BURR.
The subterranean barracks and railway have ended forever the rise of the scum, the reign of the canaille and its barricades." "Adieu, my dear Hennequin. My respectful hommages a Madame."
'Come, here's daylight coming in; reach me your hand before this canaille wakes, and here's this good beast of a dog, and yonder grave old goat with a face like Pere Michel's for our witnesses and by good luck, here's a bit of gilt wire off my shoulder-knot that I've made into a couple of rings while I've been speaking.
A time of great crimes among great men: for you know high blood, when it runs wrong, will not run tamely like blood of the canaille poor lady! But I have a little family pride, that excuse me we will change the subject if you please." My uncle's curiosity was piqued.
'Very possible! and she looks on the Maenad as the only way of getting it back? She would sell her soul for a napoleon I always knew that. Canaille, all of them! And the meditation ended in the impatient conclusion that neither she nor the brother had any responsibility. After all, any decent girl, French or English, could soon see for herself what manner of man was Jules Montjoie!
In faith, I am disgusted with all this; and I was not born to mingle with this canaille." "This, Monsieur," replied Fournier, "is very different from the affair at Loudun. There the people only rose, without actually revolting; it was the sensible and estimable part of the populace, indignant at an assassination, and not heated by wine and money.
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