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We've run a dozen or twenty a lot worse than this one. Not even the Parle Pas hurt us. Then I come in here, head paddler, and I run my boat on a 'sweeper' in a little bit of an easy drop like this. It makes me feel pretty bad, I'll tell you that!"
They must, at this camp, have been somewhere between twelve and twenty miles east of the mouth of the Parle Pas rapids, and they had made perhaps a dozen miles more that evening when they began to come to a place where again the mountains approached the stream closely. Here they could not see out at all from their place at the foot of the high banks which hedged them in.
"Those were Frenchman words," said Moise. "Parle Pas means 'no speak. He's a quiet rapeed. S'pose you'll ron on the river there, an' smoke a pipe, an' talk, an' not think of nothing. All at once, Boum! You'll been in those rapeed, an' he'll not said a word to you!" "Well," said Rob, "the traders used to run them somehow, didn't they?"
I am painfully aware that I have not summoned before the reader the image of the man as it has always stood in my memory, and I feel a sort of shame for my failure. He was so altogether simple that it seems as if it would be easy to do so; but perhaps a spirit from the other world would be simple too, and yet would no more stand at parle, or consent to be sketched, than Hawthorne.
The rest of the parle was spent in talking of Don Iuan de Luna, and some other prisoners, and somewhat of the rendring of the towne, but not much, for they listened not greatly thereunto.
Monsieur a parle de vous: il m'a demande le nom de ma gouvernante, et si elle n'etait pas une petite personne, assez mince et un peu pale. J'ai dit qu'oui: car c'est vrai, n'est-ce pas, mademoiselle?" I and my pupil dined as usual in Mrs. Fairfax's parlour; the afternoon was wild and snowy, and we passed it in the schoolroom.
"She's the Parle Pas, all right," laughed Moise; "look at heem!" From their place of observation they could see a long ridge, or rim, the water falling in a sort of cascade well out across the stream.
"Apprenez, Monsieur," he said angrily on one occasion to Dumouriez, who had accidentally referred to one of the "considerable" personages of the Court, "Apprenez qu'il n'y a pas de considerable ici, que la personne a laquelle je parle et pendant le temps que je lui parle!"* * This saying is often falsely attributed to Nicholas. The anecdote is related by Segur.
"It looks like good bear country here," said Rob. "We must be in the real Rockies now, because the mountains come right down to the river." "Good bear country clear to Hudson's Hope, or beyond that," assented Alex. "All right," said Rob; "we'll have a good hunt somewhere when we get below the Parle Pas.
Whenever the communications are again open to Paris, and English return to it, I would give them this piece of advice never deal where ici on parle Anglais is written up; it means ici on vole les Anglais.
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