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At length he sank unconsciously into a reverie, and began to ponder as to what sort of people wanted these productions? It did not seem remarkable to him that the Russian populace should gaze with rapture upon "Eruslanoff Lazarevitch," on "The Glutton" and "The Carouser," on "Thoma and Erema." The delineations of these subjects were easily intelligible to the masses.
"So," said he; "you are the lucky man to be of the breed of the elect of heaven, to get what you want for the mere desire of it, and perhaps without deserve. Here am I at my prime and over it, and no glisk of the future before me. I must be ever stumbling on, a carouser of life in a mirk and sodden lane." "You cannot know my meaning," I cried. "I know it fine," said he.
This survey was the operation of a moment; for Sir Peter took it upon himself to despatch the landlord into the house, to order forth the unseasonable carouser; and presently the Corporal stalked out, and having solemnly remounted, the whole trio set onward in a brisk trot.
"'There stood the old carouser, And drank the last life glow; And hurled the hallowed goblet Into the tide below. "He saw it plunging and filling, And sinking deep in the sea; Then fell his eyelids forever, And never more drank he!" It was the ballad she had sung at Christmas in what different mood!
O yes, my Love, answered he. How! replied she, but one Ram among so many Sheep. There had been more related; for Master Carouser was entred upon a new subject; but because the Doctor came in, they were constrained to break of.
Night after night they laugh with senseless glee, night after night inanities which pass for wit are poured forth; and daily the nerve and strength of each carouser grow weaker. Can you retrieve those nights? Never!
But it must be explained that the reason the sergeant was outside the public house was because he had challenged a fellow carouser to fight, and at the moment he was discovered he was stripped to the waist and setting about his task with rare workmanlike skill. He was also drunk. To have retained his services thereafter would have been little less than a crying scandal.
It is possible even in Loango to have a fling, but the carouser must be prepared to face, even in the midst of his revelry, the haunting thought that the exercise of the strictest economy in any other part of the world might be a preferable pastime. During the three days following his arrival Victor Durnovo indulged, according to his lights, in the doubtful pleasure mentioned.
'Alas! and truly, replied the good-natured but thoughtless Sallust, wiping the tear from his eyes; 'but so shattered are his nerves and frame that I scarcely recognize the brilliant and gay carouser I was wont to know.
The mired streets were already shadowy and silent save for the whoop of a solitary carouser, and the evening star had come out cold and distant over the west, where an amber stretch of sky still sought feebly to hold night apart from day. Through the small, grated window of one of the two cells which that prison boasted, Parish Thornton stood looking out and he saw the evening star.
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