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Every happy paterfamilias in his pew tantalized me, and the whole atmosphere of the place seemed so much better suited to every one else than me that I came away hating holidays worse than ever. Then I went to the play, and sat down in a box all alone by myself.
But the girls were painters; there was nothing to be done; and Barbizon, when I last saw it and for the time at least, was practically ceded to the fair invader. Paterfamilias, on the other hand, the common tourist, the holiday shopman, and the cheap young gentleman upon the spree, he hounded from his villages with every circumstance of contumely.
This was done by the priests, who accompanied the host to battle, and were charged at such a time with the infliction of all necessary punishments, since they represented the god who was supposed to be personally present as commander. The priests had to work the auguries when consulted on matters of state; on private matters the paterfamilias might do this himself.
They wouldn't be in such a hurry to get at their morning papers then. Can't you imagine the regulation householder Lover of Justice, Constant Reader, Paterfamilias, and all that lot frizzling on hot gravel? 'With a blue veil over his head, and his clothes in strips. Has any man here a needle? I've got a piece of sugar-sack. 'I'll lend you a packing-needle for six square inches of it then.
The habit of going to sleep immediately after dinner, instead of cheerfully entertaining Mrs. Jones and the family: or, LADIES! The habit of running up bills with the milliners, and swindling paterfamilias on the house bills. The habit of keeping him waiting for breakfast. The habit of sneering at Mrs.
Tom Tracy, you are a scoundrel, and no mistake, he added, with energy, as he arose, and struck into the field, through which he had dragged Ann Eliza the night of the storm. There were lights at Le Bateau, and Tom was soon shaking hands with old paterfamilias, who was at home, and with Ann Eliza, who was now able to come down stairs.
She tried hard to make Amram and the Paterfamilias out of them. Who knew but they also, by some unheard-of revolution in all the laws of nature, were on an exploring expedition after truant sleep? She struggled manfully after the conviction that they were innocent and unimpeachable neighbors, cutting the short way home across the fields from some remarkably late prayer-meeting.
They are all for sentiment and dainty frocks which they may imitate unsuccessfully and for handsome heroes and love-making and other prettinesses which appeal to the daughters who live a kind of second-hand life in them, and to the mothers rendered for a while young by them, whilst paterfamilias looks on, uncomfortable in his seat, irritated very often by draughts which his décolletée dame does not notice till afterwards a little curious as to the cost of the whole affair, and after a while, in a state of semi-somnolence, thinking a good deal of the events of the day and the Alpine attitude of the Bank rate or the slump in Consols.
Kennedy has been telling me that one should call people by whatever name seems natural. You are a Miss to-day, and no mistake. You are at some game or other!" "Now, Jack, be quiet!" said Mrs. Graves; "that is how the British paterfamilias gets made. You must not begin to make your womankind uncomfortable in public. You must not think aloud. You must keep up the mysteries of chivalry!"
He calls to mind a saying about Literature being a good stick, but not a good crutch an excellent auxiliary, but no permanent support; but he forgets the all-important fact that the remark was made half a century ago. Poor blind Paterfamilias shall I couch you? If the operation is successful, I am sure you will thank me for it; but, on the other hand, I foresee I shall incur the greatest enmities.
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