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That a man of such great parts and extensive learning, with such fine thoughts, beautiful sentiments and wise reflections; such a cool, abstracted philosopher, yet such an over-refined politician; such a gloomy moralist, yet such an acute, fastidious observer of men and manners, was a cloistered monk or any obscure individual whatever was an idea to be immediately dispelled from the mind, for that the Annals was composed by such a man would have been about as incomprehensible an occurrence, as it would be impossible to conceive that an acrobat who exercises gymnastic tricks upon the backs of galloping horses in an American circus could discharge the functions of a First Lord of the Treasury or a Justice in the High Court of Judicature, or that a pantaloon in a Christmas pantomime could think out the Principia of Sir Isaac Newton or the Novum Organum of Lord Bacon.
Without ceremony they stepped on board, when one of them, coming aft, touched his hat to the master. "You'll remember me, sir. Served with you aboard the Pantaloon. I'm Jerry Bird." "Glad to see you, Jerry; you saved me from being cut down when we had that affair out in the Pacific." "No, sir, I think it was t'other way," said Jerry; "I haven't forgotten it, I can tell you, sir."
One of the women whirled in a series of handsprings, like a blue balloon her body as fluid as quicksilver. If he could only borrow one-tenth of that endurance for Anne he might keep her for years. Then came Pantaloon, and Harlequin and Columbine. The old man was funny, but the youth and the girl were exquisite he, diamond-spangled and lean as a lizard, she in tulle skirts and wreath of flowers.
While the city of the Medici is receding from its crumbling walls, like the human form shrinking into "the lean and slipper'd pantaloon," the Queen of the Adriatic sleeping on her muddy isles, and Rome itself is only to be traced by fallen temples and buried columns, the youthful vigor of America is fast covering the wilds of the West with the happiest fruits of human industry.
"What have you done with Monsieur de Bruy? Has he by any possibility gone to change his face which was too like that of Monsieur de Mazarin? There is an abundance of Italian masks at the Palais Royal, from harlequin even to pantaloon." "Chevalier! chevalier!" said Athos. "Leave me alone," said Aramis impatiently. "You know well that I don't like to leave things half finished."
He will become the husband, "full of strange oaths jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel," and grow "into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon." How will he wear?
She stooped down and took the child's unoccupied hand, which she let her keep, only twisting her face away to hide it in her father's pantaloon leg. "Come now, won't you give me a forgiving little kiss?" Idella looked round, and Annie made bold to gather her up. Idella broke into a laugh, and took Annie's cheeks between her hands. "Well, I declare!" said Mrs. Bolton.
Vauxhall Bridge, and the Gardens which succeeds it, are also charmingly painted by the Grieves, and from hence the Clown and Pantaloon take an "Aeronautic excursion" to Paris.
Sands his sugar and brown-papers his teas philanthropically, for the good of the public, and denounces men who put in Old Squareface and whisky-pegs, as he fuddles himself with his loquat brandy after shop-hours in the sitting-room back of the store. But let us be thankful that Providence has sent Brooker on a special mission to play Pantaloon in this grimmish little interlude of ours.
As I walked along, I kept glancing up at these boards, confidently expecting to see a few of them change into something; and I never turned a corner suddenly without looking out for the clown and pantaloon, who, I had no doubt, were hiding in a doorway or behind some pillar close at hand. The suburbs are, if possible, even more unsubstantial-looking than the city.
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