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'What on earth is he doing dans cette galère? Are we to have a disputation? That would be dramatic. He had no attention, however, to spare, and the intruder was promptly forgotten.
``Dans la galère, capitane, nous étions quatre-vingt rameurs! sang the oarsmen in the ballad; and they, though indeed they toiled on the galley-bench, were free and happy pirates, members of an honoured and liberal profession. But all we pirates, parsons, stockbrokers, whatever our calling are but galley-slaves of the basest sort, fettered to the oar each for his little spell.
'I think you will find the other road longer still, the landlord answered grimly. 'But choose, and be quick about it. They were three to one, and they had firearms. In effect I had no choice. 'Well, if I must I must? I cried, making up my mind with seeming recklessness. 'VOGUE LA GALERE! Spain be it. It will not be the first time I have heard the dons talk.
So we treated it as a joke, rallied the old folks on their sentimental folly, and let it pass. It set me thinking, however, a great deal about the girl and her future, and I managed to make interest with several of my friends and get her invited to some good houses. Of course it was impossible to carry the old people into this galere.
They tell me the Times has pronounced the war over. I would be glad to pay £5 out of my own pocket to have the man who wrote that out here on the veldt with us for a week. We have just heard that Dewetsdorp has fallen, and that there is a rising in the Colony near Aliwal North. Vogue la galère! We are encamped close to the Vaal, which is here a fine stream, as wide as the Thames at Richmond.
Good shoulders enough, a little marked, traces of smallpox, perhaps, but white.....Crac! from the sergent-de-ville's broad palm on the white shoulder! Now look! Vogue la galère!
By this time the Confederates had begun to despair of a parliamentary policy, and they marvelled much to see their young orator rush to the hustings, and throw himself into the confusion and turmoil of an election contest. Que le diable allait il faire dans cette galere muttered his Dublin friends. Was not the time for hustings orations, and parliamentary agitation over now?
Rignold ever since I was a child," said Florence, pleased to hear Frank praised. "I regard him as one of my best and dearest friends." "The more to his credit," said the count, astonished. "Many in such a galere would prove themselves presumptuous and troublesome." "He is almost too much the other way," said Florence, with a sigh. "Ah, that appeals to me!" said the count.
"Bill can never hold his tongue. Oh, it was nothing; not with the proper treatment, mind you. Of course, if the allopaths were to get their knives into me but, thank God! I'm out of that galère. Well, in a fortnight, isn't it? We shall both be in town again. I don't like saying good-bye." And he took both her hands in his. "It all seems so strange to me still so strange!" he murmured.
If it amuses you, it can amuse me also to be looked upon as Gregers Werle. Vogue la galère.
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