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The people made a great noise, and we heard some crying, "A republic!" but no injury was offered to us, only M. de Bouillon received a blow in his face from a ragamuffin, who took him for Cardinal Mazarin.
"Where is Miss Delaires?" asked Lewis, his face brightening. "Doin' 'er mile," replied the coachman. Lewis waved his hand toward a path to the right questioningly. The man nodded. Feeling suddenly young again, Lewis hurried along the path with a long and eager stride. He had not gone far when he saw a dainty figure, grotesquely accompanied by a ragamuffin, coming toward him.
"He's a nice amiable young specimen," replied I. "When did he go?" "I don't know. When I woke up he was gone." "Well, it's a good riddance," said I, who really did not see why Jack should be so afflicted about such a graceless young ragamuffin. "Do you know Mrs Nash has given us both warning over this business?" "I don't care. But, I say, I wonder if he's hiding anywhere." "Not he.
Amid this crowd, I recognized more than one face which I had often seen in my equestrian lounges through town, peering from the shoulders of some intrusive, ragamuffin, wagesless lackey, and squealing out of its wretched, unpampered mouth, the everlasting query of "Want your oss held, Sir?"
This sounded so circumstantial that they went back and dug another day. It was hot weather, too August and that night they were nearly dead. Even Huck gave it up then. He said there was something wrong about the way they dug. This differs a good deal from the treasure incident in the book, but it shows us what respect the boys had for the gifts of the ragamuffin original of Huck Finn.
He seems a nice fellow enough; and he evidently hasn't much practice, or he couldn't afford to be a Ragamuffin, and to write farces. He looks to me exactly the kind of modest deserving man who ought to succeed, and who so seldom does." This was all that was said about Mr. Burkham; but there was no more talk of ghost-stories, and a temporary depression fell upon the little assembly.
Another well-remembered though strangely altered face was that of Lawyer Giles, as people still called him in courtesy; an elderly ragamuffin, in his soiled shirt-sleeves and tow-cloth trousers.
"You think you can frighten me because I am only a poor girl left alone in the house. You ragamuffin thieves, I defy you both! Our bolts are strong, our shutters are thick. I am here to keep my father's house safe, and keep it I will against an army of you!" You may imagine what a passion I was in when I vapored and blustered in that way.
That little ragamuffin was no less a personage than the King of England, and the curious circumstance by which he got into those rags and into that cruel torture is told by Mark Twain, in his most interesting story-book, "The Prince and the Pauper."
"But," she replied, and laughed, "the cutler is your friend." "Less mine than yours," said my father sharply. "A ragamuffin and a humbug, who hops about " "Oh!" she exclaimed, "that's true, really true, that he hops. He hops, hops, hops!" And she left the shop, shaking with laughter. My father turned round to the priest, who was picking a bone: "It is as I had the honour to say to your reverence!
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