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Yet to many in court, more especially to the theatrical folk behind the man with the white hair, the gesture was but one more subtle touch in an exhibition of consummate art and nerve. "If they do acquit her," whispered one of these wiseacres to another, "she will make her fortune on the stage!"
The experience of the world has proved it." "Oh!" she cried, and her body was rocking. If he did not stop, she would weep herself to death. "Yes, it seems sad," Tommy continued; "but if ever man knew that it served him right, I know it. And they maintain, the wiseacres who have analyzed love, that there is much to be said in favour of a calm affection.
But during the five years that these honest wiseacres have been preserving, everything has perished the Republic, the Consuls, free discussions, free election, the political liberty, and the liberty of the Press; all all are found nowhere but in old, useless, and rejected codes. They have, however, in a truly patriotic manner taken care of their own dear selves.
There were hours in which she was more hopeful, and defied the wiseacres. Clever young men had succeeded in the past clever men whose hair was not yet grey had come to the front in the present. Granted that these were the exceptional men, the fine flower of humanity.
That other class of wiseacres who twist prophecy in such a manner as to make it promise the destruction and desolation of the same city, use judgment just as bad, since the city is in a very flourishing condition now, unhappily for them. These things put arguments into the mouth of infidelity.
And in face of all these positive facts, the American wiseacres here and in Europe, all the bar-room and street politicians here and there, all the would-be statesmen, all the sham wise, are incessant in their speculations concerning certain invisible, deep, treacherous schemes of Louis Napoleon against the Union.
And what then? These lamps, lighted, so they fancied, only to illuminate their battles and triumphs, are burning with all their former brilliance, whilst the wiseacres themselves, together with their hopes and passions, have long been extinguished, like a little fire kindled at the edge of a forest by a careless wayfarer!
But it was queer that half a dozen girls were pulling straws for him and here was one who did not care, would not raise a finger, but, oh, how sweet her smiles were. "If you are a bridesmaid the third time, you will never be a bride," said some of the wiseacres. Cynthia tossed her proud, dainty head and laughed over it to Cousin Chilian. He looked a little grave.
I almost fancied he had seen me and was determined to get out of the way." "The pretty English girl," said the guests at the inn, "comes down no longer to the table d'hôte!" "The pretty English girl," remarked the wiseacres, "does not even drive out on these days, and the doctor calls every morning to see her." "And sometimes," added one of the wisest, "again in the evening."
Certain wiseacres here began to see political allusions in the Ghost, and many actually took the whole affair to be a cunningly devised political satire upon this or that party, according as their sympathies swayed them. It would have been a remarkable portion of "this strange, eventful history," of course, if "Barnum" could have escaped the accusation of being its progenitor.
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