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I like to meet a sweep understand me not a grown sweeper old chimney-sweepers are by no means attractive but one of those tender novices, blooming through their first nigritude, the maternal washings not quite effaced from the cheek such as come forth with the dawn, or somewhat earlier, with their little professional notes sounding like the peep peep of a young sparrow; or liker to the matin lark should I pronounce them, in their aerial ascents not seldom anticipating the sun-rise?
I had a flowered white silk waistcoat, and the man said: "Monsieur est bien beau ce matin; on dirait qu'il va a une noce." I answered: "Vous avez bien devine; en effet, je vais a une noce." It was unnecessary to give him further information. The marriage was a curious little ceremony. My wife's father had friends and acquaintances in the most various classes, who all came to the wedding.
It grew louder and more general every moment, till shortly the six thousand voices, and more, were raised in the cheerful din the matin, if you please, for as yet only a few of the birds were fighting. But the fight quickly spread.
The bright waters of the Mowe and its wooded hills; her matin walks to the convent to visit Ursula Trafford a pilgrimage of piety and charity and love; the faithful Harold, so devoted and so intelligent; even the crowded haunts of labour and suffering among which she glided like an angel, blessing and blessed; they rose before her those touching images of the past and her eyes were suffused with tears, of tenderness, not of gloom.
The praise and the wish came from a young English officer who was staying in the same hotel with me. For two days I had watched his desperate efforts to avoid death by boredom. He read every line of the Matin and Journal before luncheon, with tragic sighs, because every line repeated what had been said in the French newspapers since the early days of the war.
She fashioned into a fan the Matin newspaper, which I had bought for the luxurious purpose of not reading, and fanned me. "That is what Ayesha used to do to Hamdi. And Ayesha used to tell him stories. But my lord does not like his slave's stories." "Decidedly not," said I. I have heard much of Ayesha, a pretty animal organism who appears to have turned her elderly husband into a doting fool.
And could they see the pure and perfect snob who now sometimes bears the name which they left so unsullied, they would be exasperated and ashamed, Of course, a certain exclusiveness must mark all our matin,es and soir,es; they would fail of the chief element of diversion if we invited everybody.
"Religion! religion?" echoed the Englishman. "Yes religion!" repeated the improvvisatore. "Scarce one of them but will cross himself and say his prayers when he hears in his mountain fastness the matin or the ave maria bells sounding from the valleys.
What a caricature and what a base, empty caricature of England or France or Italy you get in the "Times," or the "Manchester Guardian," the "Matin," or the "Tribune"! No one of them is in any sense general or really national.
The dry cackle of the apprentice as he looked after Guida roused a mockery of indignation in the Master. "Sacre matin, a back-hander on the jaw'd do you good, slubberdegullion you! Ah, get go scrub the coffin blacking from your jowl!" he rasped out with furious contempt. The apprentice seemed not to hear, but kept on looking after Guida, a pitiless leer on his face.
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