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What you call it?" And Mr. Fizgig put his glass into his eye and looked at me. "We speak English, sir," says I, "knowing it better than French." "Everybody has not had your opportunities," Miss Brough, continued the gentleman. "Everybody has not voyage like nous autres, hey? Mais que voulez-vous, my good sir? you must stick to your cursed ledgers and things.
Why, sir, the humble person now speaking to you could buy out many a German duke! But I'm not proud no, no, not proud. There's my daughter look at her when I die, she will be mistress of my fortune; but am I proud? No! Let him who can win her, marry her, that's what I say. Be it you, Mr. Fizgig, son of a peer of the realm; or you, Bill Tidd.
Seagriff, in turn taking the glass, further makes out that the men have fish-spears in their hands, and an implement he recognises as a fizgig, while the heads of dogs appear over the gunwales of the canoes, nearly a dozen in each. "It's a fishin' party," he pronounces. "For all thet, we'd best make a hide of it; thar's no trustin' 'em, anyway, so long as they think they hev the upper hand.
He was very much after the fashion of that clean and pleasant-looking person one sees in the advertisements in American magazines, that agreeable person who smiles and says, "Good, it's the Fizgig Brand," or "Yes, it's a Wilkins, and that's the Best," or "My shirt-front never rucks; it's a Chesson." But now he was saying, still with the same firm smile, "Good. It's English."
"What! with France?" "No; England. At last. The King has landed." "I say, are you going mad?" "Yes, with excitement. Frank, the game has begun, and we must throw up everything now, and join hands with the good men and true who are going to save our country." "Bah! You've got one of your fits on again," cried Frank contemptuously; "what a gunpowder fizgig you are!"
Tidd, with whom he had been at school, and had supplanted Tidd entirely in the great heiress's affections. Fizgig; and at last, seeing the Captain, made him give his word that the engagement should be kept secret for a few months.
Whereupon Captain Fizgig got an appointment in the colonies, and Miss Brough became more ill-humoured than ever. But I could not help thinking she was rid of a bad bargain, and pitying poor Tidd, who came back to the charge again more love-sick than ever, and was rebuffed pitilessly by Miss Belinda.
"Hush, Mamma, you don't understand French!" says Miss Belinda, with a sneer. "It's a sad disadvantage, madam," says Fizgig, gravely; "and I recommend you and Brough here, who are coming out in the great world, to have some lessons; or at least get up a couple of dozen phrases, and introduce them into your conversation here and there. I suppose, sir, you speak it commonly at the office, Mr.
The Captain was sneering openly at Miss Brough and her affected ways and talk; but in spite of his bullying contemptuous way I thought she seemed to have a great regard for him, and to bear his scorn very meekly. At twelve Captain Fizgig went off to his barracks at Knightsbridge, and Tidd and I to our rooms.
Chairmen splashed us as they passed; and impudent dandies powdered and patched and laced and bewigged like any fizgig of a girl would have elbowed us from the wall to the gutter for the sport of seeing M. Radisson's moccasins slimed. "Egad," says M. Radisson, "an I spill not some sawdust out o' these dolls, or cut their stay-strings, may the gutter take us for good and all! Pardieu!
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