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Signe again turned the leaves of her Bible. "Read here," said she. This time it was the first chapter of St. John. He read the first fourteen verses. "Dat vil do; now read here." She returned to the sixth chapter, sixty-second verse, and he read: "What and if ye see the Son of man ascend up to where He was before." She turned to another.
Month after month he dragged himself along, but his strength was no longer what it had been. On April 21 he wrote with trembling hand only the words, "Tried to ride, but was forced to lie down and they carried me back to vil. exhausted." A comfortable litter was made, and Susi and Chuma were always with him.
There was Lorna, my love and life, bound by her duty to that old vil nay, I mean to her good grandfather, who could now do little mischief, and therefore deserved all praise Lorna bound, at any rate, by her womanly feelings, if not by sense of duty, to remain in the thick danger, with nobody to protect her, but everybody to covet her, for beauty and position.
This person, I say, after having eyed me some time, said, "Oho, 'tis ver well, Monsieur Concordance; young man, you are ver welcome, take one coup of bierre and come to mine house to-morrow morning; Monsieur Concordance vil show you de way." Upon this I made my bow, and as I went out of the room could hear him say, "Ma foi! c'est un beau garcon; c'est un gaillard."
Donaster asked. "Have you told anyone?" "Not yet." "Not yet! Then you intend to do so, I suppose?" "Why not? Should not Mr. and Mrs. Randall know at once what a vil , excuse me, what an impostor you are?" "Don't, don't tell them! For the love of heaven, keep this a secret. They must not know. It will ruin me." "What am I to do, then?" "Say nothing. Keep silent."
"`Oh, shave me! shave me! vil no one shave me? he sang out; but of all the people standing round there wasn't one who would touch him with his fingers, because they looked on him as a dirty old Jew. "At last they thought that though he was a Jew it was a shame to let him drown, so half-a-dozen or more of them ran off to get a rake to haul him out.
A mat or wicker-work screen divided the hut into two apartments, one of which was entirely given over to the naturalist and his matériel. "I vil begin at vonce," said the eager man, on taking possession. And he kept his word by placing his lamp on a table in a conspicuous position, so that it could be well seen from the outside.
A propos of some recent acting in London we began to talk of Moliere, and presently, as though to shut out the stream of words opposite, which was damping conversation, the old poet how the splendid brow and the white hair come back to me! fell to quoting from the famous sonnet scene in "Le Misanthrope": first of all, Alceste's rage with Phillinte's flattery of the wretched verses declaimed by Oronte "Morbleu! vil complaisant, vous louez des sottises"; then the admirable fencing between Oronte and Alceste, where Alceste at first tries to convey his contempt for Oronte's sonnet indirectly, and then bursts out: "Ce n'est que jeu de mots, qu'affectation pure, Et ce n'est point ainsi que parle la nature!"
He was a man from whom I derived a good deal of amusement one way and another. Thinking of him brings back to my mind a somewhat odd incident. One afternoon, I jumped upon his 'bus in the Seven Sisters Road. An elderly Frenchman was the only other occupant of the vehicle. "You vil not forget me," the Frenchman was saying as I entered, "I desire Sharing Cross."
My father is a King's officer, and before he came here he fought for his country." "Veil, Mees Dorotee, I do beg your pardon mooch, and I vill vight vor mein country if you vil learn to loaf me on dot account." But Miss Dolly would listen no more, and, with a ceremonious bow, walked away.
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