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"Lend me a franc, laddie," said McPhail, and when Doggie had slipped the coin into his palm, he addressed the child in unintelligible grandiloquence and sent her on her way mystified but rejoicing. Ces bons drôles d'Anglais! "Ah, laddie!" cried Phineas, stretching himself out comfortably by the jamb of the door, "you've got to learn to savour the exquisite pleasure of a genuinely kindly act."
At any rate, I made out that he was asking if I was the little "cochon d'anglais," or English pig, whom for his sins he had to teach. He added that he judged I must be, as my hair stuck up on my head I had taken off my hat out of politeness as it naturally would do on a pig's back.
They had never seen people travelling in a boat before on dry land. When they heard we were English all was explained: 'Ces diables d'Anglais sont capables de tout. While crossing the country in this fashion we passed a spot on the highroad where a man was getting ready to thresh his wheat.
Take those men we saw last night in the Cafe d'Anglais. There wasn't an Englishman I saw that compared with them." "My dear, your tastes are exotic," replied Cowperwood, who was watching her with pleased interest while he adjusted his tie. "The French smart crowd are almost too smart, dandified. I think some of those young fellows had on corsets." "What of it?" replied Aileen. "I like it.
The peasant reads but little history not at all; but Jean Bonhomme looks up at the cliffs and finds the story of the past graven there; and just as the twinge of a corn is still felt after the foot has been amputated, so though the English rule has passed away, three hundred and fifty years have intervened he still winces, and curses the haunts "de ces cochons d'Anglais," though in fact ces cochons were his own compatriots, doubled-dyed in iniquity, as traitors to their country and their King.
They were all safely stowed away in the forecastle before half an hour, and, with grunts of satisfaction, examined the largess of their mysterious employer, "C'est ungaillard un vrai coq d'Anglais!" growled the boatswain, as his chums produced another bottle, and the three doffed their drenched clothing. Then cognac drowned their scruples against murder for the price was in their pockets.
They were on the new catamaran "L'Arar," and enjoyed their voyage thoroughly. On October 2, Richard left us to go to Paris to have the benefit of les Cours de la Sorbonne, as a preparation for L'Agregation d'Anglais; and in December Stephen asked for a year's leave of absence from his post, in order to pursue his English studies in London.
For the early post brought him a letter which said: "I am in Paris for a few days and should like to see you if you can make it convenient to call at my hotel on Thursday." This was Tuesday. The letter was signed with the name of the uncle from whom Vernon had expectations, and at the head of the letter was the address: "Hotel Bete, Cite de Retraite, Rue Boissy d'Anglais."
THE skipper of the ship, hearing a commotion on deck, came up, and, taking off his cap, made Lucy a bow in a style remote from an English sailor's. She courtesied to him, and, to his surprise, addressed him in Parisian French. When he learned she was from England, and had rounded that point in an open boat, he was astonished. "Diables d'Anglais!" said he.
'Well 'tis very pretty now, and I don't know how we could stand a young Turk, but you mustn't make a girl of him. 'There's no fear of that, said Nuttie. 'He is full of spirit. That old bathing woman calls him "un vrai petit diable d'Anglais," he is so venturous. Which delighted Mr. Egremont as much as the concession that the boy's faith was 'pretty' delighted Ursula.
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