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And better acquainted we soon became; and I found that, in making the acquaintance of the young man, I had indeed made a valuable acquisition; he was accomplished, highly connected, and bore the name of Francis Ardry.
It was now about one o'clock: Francis Ardry ordered dinner for two, to be ready at four, and a pint of sherry to be brought forthwith, which I requested my friend the waiter might be the very best, and which in effect turned out as I requested; we sat down, and when we had drunk to each other's health, Frank requested me to make known to him how I had contrived to free myself from my embarrassments in London, what I had been about since I quitted that city, and the present posture of my affairs.
However, as you are here, I suppose I must abide by it. I am not so little of a gentleman as to be deficient in the rudiments of hospitality. You may both of you sit down and make yourselves aisy." But this was no such easy matter, the only two chairs in the room being occupied by the captain and the other. I therefore leaned against the door, while Ardry strolled about the apartment.
'Il dit que tout l'equipage est en assez bon gout. 'Allons, c'est un ours, said the lady; 'le cheval meme en a peur, added she, as the mare reared up on high. 'Can you find nothing else to admire but the mare and the equipage? said Francis Ardry, reproachfully, after he had with some difficulty brought the mare to order. Lifting my hand, in which I held my stick, I took off my hat.
After a pause, in which Francis Ardry appeared lost in thought, his mind being probably occupied with the subject of Annette, I broke silence by observing, ‘So your fellow-religionists are really going to make a serious attempt to procure their emancipation?’
'Qui est celui-ci? demanded the small female, impatiently. 'C'est mon ami le plus intime; so you were about to leave London, without telling me a word, said Francis Ardry, somewhat angrily. 'I intended to have written to you, said I: 'what a splendid mare that is. 'Is she not? said Francis Ardry, who was holding in the mare with difficulty; 'she cost a hundred guineas.
'Now deep healths quaffing, now screeching now laughing, At my harp-strings tearing, and to madness nearing: That was the life I led, and which I yet do; For I will swear it, and to all the world declare it, If you would fain be happy, you must aye be "Fou!" said Francis Ardry, suddenly pushing open the door of the room from which the voice proceeded; "That's the word, I think, captain."
Francis Ardry said he was one of the two great men whom the world has produced, the other being Napoleon; I replied that I believed Tamerlane was a greater man than either; but Francis Ardry knew nothing of Tamerlane, save what he had gathered from the play of Timour the Tartar. "No," said he, "Alexander and Napoleon are the great men of the world, their names are known everywhere.
"Good, sir good!" he occasionally uttered, in the same sharp, cracked tone, as the voice of Francis Ardry became more and more vehement. "Infinitely good!" he exclaimed, as Francis Ardry raised his voice to the highest pitch; "and now, sir, abate; let the tempest of vehemence decline gradually, sir; not too fast. Good, sir very good!" as the voice of Francis Ardry declined gradually in vehemence.
Not that I care anything about the matter; I merely obey the will of my guardians; my thoughts are fixed on something better than politics." "I was not thinking of dog-fighting," said Francis Ardry, interrupting me. "Not thinking of dog-fighting!" I ejaculated. "No," said Francis Ardry, "something higher and much more rational than dog-fighting at present occupies my thoughts."
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