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I could perceive no alteration in Theophilus which gave the least promise of mental improvement. After a few minutes spent in his company, I found him more arrogant and conceited than when he left England. The affectation of imitating foreign manners, and interlarding his conversation with French and Italian, rendered him less attractive in his assumed, than he had been in his natural, character.
The satin bills of their majesties and the princesses were then duly displayed and the dingy green curtain drew up. The performances were invariably either a comedy and farce, or more frequently three farces, with a plentiful interlarding of comic songs. Quick, Suett, and Mrs. Mattocks were the reigning favourites; and, about 1800, Elliston and Fawcett became occasional stars.
The major continued muttering several incoherent sentences, interlarding them with words of intelligible English, which doubly confused his auditors, another of whom declared that though he never had read a verse of Latin in his life, he was sure it was not that, but some strange tongue, in which the sufferer, being a profound scholar, desired to make his "dying declaration."
"How now, Captain!" cried he, in a gutteral accent, and interlarding his discourse with certain Dutch graces, which with our reader's leave we will omit, as being unable to spell them; "how now! not gone yet!" "No! I start for the coast to-morrow; business keeps me to-day. I came to ask if Mellon may be fully depended on?" "Ay, honest to the back-bone."
"What are you?" demanded an officer of the storming party. "We're the Alabama eighth!" "We are the Massachusetts th," replied our men. "Then you are the villains we want!" returned the rebel, plentifully interlarding the sentence with oaths. The flag of truce dropped, and the dastardly foe poured in a volley of musketry, before which a dozen of our brave boys fell, either killed or wounded.
He pulled away for the shore, and I never heard anything more of the dirty ropes and soiled gloves. This officer, I afterwards learned, was in the habit of interlarding his discourse with this darling object of his ambition; but as he is now a member of the Upper House, it is to be supposed he has exchanged the affidavit for some other.
Their fables were designed, by exciting admiration, to call forth money for the support of missions, which, notwithstanding such false pretences, were piously undertaken and heroically pursued. They scrupled therefore as little at interlarding their chronicles and annual letters with such miracles, as poets at the use of machinery in their verses.
"No, no, you may kill me if you like, but I won't," a woman's voice replied. Bob saw the man lift his hand to strike her, but before it fell he had rushed upon him, and hurled him aside. "Who are you, and what do yer want?" cried the fellow, interlarding his question with foul epithets. "No matter who I am, or what I want," replied Bob. "Leave that woman alone."
But we never, sir' said Miggs, looking sideways at Mrs Varden, and interlarding her discourse with a sigh 'we never know the full value of SOME wines and fig-trees till we lose 'em. So much the worse, sir, for them as has the slighting of 'em on their consciences when they're gone to be in full blow elsewhere. And Miss Miggs cast up her eyes to signify where that might be.
This was especially the case with the women, of whom it was not uncommon to see a group sitting in a hut for hours together, each relating her quota of information, now and then mimicking the persons of whom they spoke, and interlarding their stories with jokes evidently at the expense of their absent neighbours, though to their own infinite amusement.
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