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The inhabitants of the South-East, however, the more immediate retainers of the language of the Troubadours, save in a few drinking-songs and Christmas carols, had forgotten the strains that once resounded beyond the limits of Provence and had first awaked the poetic emulation of Spain and Italy.
He sings; beautifully, I suppose; I can't sing a note; and wouldn't if I could. Still, if he only wouldn't sing drinking-songs but, Smith, I think that to sing drinking-songs and all the more to sing them as well as some folks think he does is to advocate drinking, and to advocate drinking is next door to excusing drunkenness!" "Then Ned Ferry doesn't drink?" "Indeed he does!
"On the middle rafter," murmured the Football Man, "is one old fellow giving signals." "A quartette is singing drinking-songs on my nose," muttered the Glee Club Man. "We won't need to cook," I suggested somnolently. "We can run up and down on deck with our mouths open and get enough for breakfast." The fourth member opened one eye.
Then he would turn, flourishing his razor and grimacing joyously, enacting droll antics, breaking out into scraps and verses of drinking-songs, "A boire! a boire!" then laughing heartily, and crying, "Vive la gaite!" then resuming his task, looking into the glass with grave face, on which, however, a grin would soon break out anew, and all his pranks would be repeated with variations.
Fortnoye, educated at the Polytechnic School in Paris, is a man of grave character and profound learning. Second. Fortnoye is a roysterer, latterly occupied in extending the connection of a champagne-house at Épernay. He is a Bohemian, even a poet: he can rhyme, but strictly in the interests of commerce he composes only drinking-songs. Third.
Comic drinking-songs, and satires on the English, the latter to the tune of 'Yankee Doodle, were sung in the saloon in the evenings round large bowls of punch, and had the effect of keeping many of the ladies on deck, when a refuge from the cold and spray would have been desirable; but with this exception the conduct of the passengers on the whole was marked by far more propriety than could have been expected from so mixed a company.
Rolling and reeking decks have known him, and falling walls, and shrieks, and flames mounting skyward, and viking sagas, and drinking-songs roared from brass throats, and terrible hymns to Odin Allfather in the midwatches of Northern nights. He had called upon me shortly after his arrival, his ostensible reason being my work among his mill-people. I think he liked me, later.
The Place was filled with people, some going, others coming; young beaux and young beauties were sauntering in couples toward the groves and gardens; merry youths passed by, cheerily trolling refrains of drinking-songs it was all a picture of vivacity, life, animation, gaiety, which formed a bitter contrast with my mourning and my solitude.
Battle-songs, drinking-songs, boat-songs, love-songs, and everything else, they seemed to have a complete assortment of, and I was glad to find that "All in the Downs," "Poor Tom Bowline," "The Bay of Biscay," "List, ye Landsmen!" and all those classical songs of the sea, still held their places.
If you care to let me have ten good drinking-songs by to-morrow morning, or something spicy, you know the sort of thing, eh! I will pay you two hundred francs." When Lucien returned home, he found Coralie stretched out straight and stiff on a pallet-bed; Berenice, with many tears, had wrapped her in a coarse linen sheet, and put lighted candles at the four corners of the bed.
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