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Last year they had the sweetest little ponies four of them, no higher than St. Bernards and there are the clowns too, and a band." She was suddenly afraid that she was talking too much silly too, in her childish enthusiasms. She remembered that she was in reality deputising for her mother, who would never have talked about the Circus.
"It would be a happy hit for clowns to make, but as it seems to be unworthy of two gentlemen " said Porthos. "So I think; and therefore I said, 'Were our object money only; but we want something else," replied the Gascon.
Finally it occurred to them that their naked skin represented flesh-colored "tights" very fairly; so they drew a ring in the sand and had a circus with three clowns in it, for none would yield this proudest post to his neighbor. Next they got their marbles and played "knucks" and "ring-taw" and "keeps" till that amusement grew stale.
The following snatches of conversation, passing between clowns and columbines, pantaloons and fairies, Turks and sultans, debardeurs and debardeuses, paired off more or less properly, will give an idea of the importance of the wished-for personage. "They ordered the spread to be for seven in the morning, so their carriages ought to have come up afore now."
At this all took their seats again, and out trotted two clowns, Jack and August, each riding in a little goat wagon. The goats were decorated with the Fourth of July buntings and the wagons had the tailboards out and were tipped up like circus chariots. The clowns pulled up in line. "One, two, three!" called Bert, with a really big revolver up in the air. "Ready! Set! Go!"
She sat on the edge of the best-of-all seat and drank in riders and clowns and dizzy performing fairies an intoxicating draught. "Miss Theodosia," in a tiny whisper. "Yes, dear?" "Ain't you glad you ain't dead? 'Cause you don't need to be." Which was Evangeline's way of complimenting Heaven. There was no need of dying to find out its marvels not now.
Waverley then requested to see the butler; upon which the fellow, with a knowing look and nod of intelligence, made a signal to Edward to follow, and began to dance and caper down the alley up which he had made his approaches. A strange guide this, thought Edward, and not much unlike one of Shakespeare's roynish clowns.
Sometimes I think I should like to be the fellow who cracks the whip with the long lash and makes the clowns hop around on one foot " "You mean the ringmaster?" "I guess that's the fellow. He makes 'em all get around lively. Then, sometimes, I think I would rather be a clown. I can skin a cat on the flying rings to beat the band, now. What would you rather be, Phil?" "Me?
To think that he should be thus helping, with all his strength, to extend the walls of the Thebes of the oppressor, made him half mad. Poor Israel! well-named bondsman in the English Egypt. But he drowned the thought by still more recklessly spattering with his ladle: "What signifies who we be, or where we are, or what we do?" Slap-dash! "Kings as clowns are codgers who ain't a nobody?" Splash!
What will overtake us when that is gone? Shall we charge them, so that we may die fighting?" When the Etheling did not answer immediately, his companion looked up at him with loving reproach. "You forget that you need conceal nothing from me, dear lord. I am not as those clowns below. You have even said that you found pleasure in telling me your mind."
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