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About a quarter-of-an-hour after the action had ceased, just after daylight, a 64-gun ship, the Veteran, was seen approaching, and the French officers afterwards refused to sign the usual head-money certificate unless the Veteran was named as one of their captors, though they afterwards withdrew their objections, which were absurd, considering that though she had seen the flashes of their guns, she had not caught sight of the combatants until the Pique was in possession of her captors.
"They shall not be before us if I can prevent it, Chevalier," replied she, warmly. She was indeed grateful for the implied compliment to Le Gardeur. "No one will be better pleased at his good fortune than myself." "I thought so. It was partly my business to tell you of our intentions towards Le Gardeur." "Indeed!" replied she, in a tone of pique.
She had married him out of pique, it was true, but life with him had never seemed intolerable until he had shown her that he knew it. She took her invitation with her, and in her own room sat down to read it once again. It was from a near neighbour, Lady Blythebury, an acquaintance with whom she was more intimate than was Sir Roland. Lady Blythebury was a very lively person indeed.
I am of opinion that good pictures are quite as rare as good poets; and I do not see why we should pique ourselves on admiring any but the very best.
"Well one of these Mormons was the husband of the girl, or rather ought to have been since they were married just at starting. It appears that the young woman was against the marriage for she loved some one more to her choice but her father had forced her to it; and some quarrel happening just at the time with the favourite lover, she had consented from pique, sin duda to accept the Mormon."
Loring must catch their breaths in amazement, when that courteous gentleman hands them for the last new novel sandwiched between "Pique" and "Woodburn" thoughts of such a compass as that! There are sometimes fictitious writers who sweep across the land in a great wave of popularity and then pass away, as Frederika Bremer twenty years ago, and leave no visible impression behind.
"It is an idle argument in the Americans," said Governor Pownall, "when they talk of setting up manufactures for trade; but it would be equally injudicious in Government here to force any measure that may render the manufacturing for home consumption an object of prudence, or even of pique, in the Americans." The maternal Government pressed this matter a little too fast and too far.
If, added he, she had no pique to you, my dear, yet what has passed between her and me, has so exasperated her, that I know she would have quarrelled with my horse, if she had thought I valued it, and nobody else was in her way. Dear sir, said I, don't say so of good Lady Davers.
Depend upon envy, jealousy, spite, or plain venal disloyalty, if accident or inadvertence fail, to lay the law-breaker by the heels. But granting all this it was none the less true that the utmost diligence, spurred by the pique, ill-will, and ambition of the police of all Europe, had failed as yet to forge any link between the supercriminal of the age and the distinguished connoisseur of art.
Falconer said, were, no doubt, all on the watch to "interpret," or misinterpret, "motions, looks, and eyes." "My dear," concluded the mother, "your play is to show yourself always easy and happy, whatever occurs; occupied with other things, surrounded by other admirers, and encouraging them properly properly of course to pique the jealousy of your Count."
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