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What I want to say to you is this: Professor Farrago detests unmarried women, and I forgot it when I engaged you." "Oh, is that all?" she asked, laughing. "Not all, but enough to cost me my position." "How absurd! Why, there are millions of things we might do! millions!" "What's one of them?" I inquired. "Why, we might pretend to be married!"
"I have, my Lord since the day nine years agone when I learned that your king's minions had hanged my father in the Regulation." "Then it was a farrago of lies you told me about your adventures in the western mountains?" "Not wholly. It was your Lordship's good pleasure to send succors of powder and lead to your allies, the western savages.
If I wear an old cloak, it looks shabby and disgraceful, as it is. But if I lend it to a shapely and well-made friend, it gets a beauty from the wearer. There are men I know who can tell me a story as old as the hills, and yet make it fresh and attractive. Look at that delicious farrago of nonsense and absurdity, Ruskin's Fors Clavigera.
A great number of outlandish articles are intentionally omitted, as well as a farrago of French trifles and French nonsense, in order to render the work truly worthy of the patronage of the genuine English housekeeper.
"None," I replied, bluntly; "it's a useless expense, unless there is something to bring back. If there is I'll wire you, you may be sure." "Very well," said Professor Farrago, good-humoredly, "you shall have all the assistance you may require. Can you leave to-night?" The old gentleman was certainly prompt. I nodded, half-sulkily, aware of his amusement.
'MY uncle lay with his eyes half closed, and his nightcap drawn almost down to his nose. His fancy was already wandering, and began to mingle up the present scene with the crater of Vesuvius, the French Opera, the Coliseum at Rome, Dolly's Chop-house in London, and all the farrago of noted places with which the brain of a traveller is crammed; in a word, he was just falling asleep.
He had not addressed himself to anybody in particular, but I said that I was Mr. Gilland, and he produced the envelope. "Toted in from Okeechobee?" he inquired, listlessly. "Probably; it's signed 'Farrago, isn't it?" "It's foh yoh, suh, I reckon," said the operator, handing it out with a yawn. Then he removed his hat and fanned his head, which was perfectly bald. I opened the yellow envelope.
It was, indeed, a strange farrago, this romantic drama with which the vast audience had replaced the Sabbath pieties, the home-keeping ritual of the Ghetto, in their swift transformation to American life.
'I thank you, gentleman, he said, with a mixture of irony and contempt, 'for the interest you take in my private history. I should have thought it had been as little to the taste as it is to the honour of some of you to listen to such a farrago of lies. 'Lees! my lord, said MacGregor, starting to his feet. Mr. Cocker looked dismayed, and Mr. Lord Rothie turned in a rage.
Overcome at the sublime courage of the man, we wept in each other's arms. True to our promise to Professor Farrago, we made the best of our way northward; and it was not a difficult journey by any means, the voyage in the launch across Okeechobee being perfectly simple and the trail to the nearest railroad station but a few easy miles from the landing-place.
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