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'And now a little pathos, sir try them with a little pathos. That won't do, sir that won't do, as Francis Ardry made an attempt to become pathetic, 'that will never pass for pathos with tones and gesture of that description you will never redress the wrongs of your country. Now, sir, observe my gestures, and pay attention to the tone of my voice, sir.
‘Because I have neither,’ said I; ‘and to write them is, I believe above my capacity. At present I feel divested of all energy—heartless, and almost hopeless.’ ‘I see how it is,’ said Francis Ardry, ‘you have overworked yourself, and, worst of all, to no purpose. Take my advice; cast all care aside, and only think of diverting yourself for a month at least.’
On entering the room I perceived another individual, to whom Francis Ardry appeared to be addressing himself; this other was a short spare man of about sixty; his hair was of badger gray, and his face was covered with wrinkles without vouchsafing me a look, he kept his eye, which was black and lustrous, fixed full on Francis Ardry, as if paying the deepest attention to his discourse.
Then taking from the table a kind of three-cornered hat, and a cane headed with amber, he shook Francis Ardry by the hand; and, after glancing at me for a moment, made me a half bow, attended with a strange grimace, and departed. ‘Who is that gentleman?’ said I to Francis Ardry, as soon as we were alone. ‘Oh, that is -’ said Frank, smiling, ‘the gentleman who gives me lessons in elocution.’
So Francis Ardry came to see me, and right glad I was to see him, for I had just flung my books and papers aside, and was wishing for a little social converse; and when we had conversed for some little time together, Francis Ardry proposed that we should go to the play to see Kean; so we went to the play, and saw not Kean, who at that time was ashamed to show himself, but a man who was not ashamed to show himself, and who people said was a much better man than Kean as I have no doubt he was though whether he was a better actor I cannot say, for I never saw Kean.
Est-ce bien ainsi que vous traitez vos amis?" said she passionately, as Francis Ardry lifted up his whip. "Bonjour, Monsieur, bonjour," said she, thrusting her head from the side and looking back, as Francis Ardry drove off at the rate of thirteen miles an hour.
The passage where Ardry and his French mistress talk to Borrow, she using her own language, is like "The Sentimental Journey." And, as Mr. Seccombe has suggested, Borrow found in Sterne's a precedent for the rate of progress in his autobiography. But innumerable are the possible styles which combine something from the Bible, Defoe, and Sterne, with something else upon a Victorian foundation.
'How beautiful! said I, looking the lady full in the face. 'Comment? said the lady, inquiringly. 'Il dit que vous etes belle comme un ange, said Francis Ardry, emphatically. 'Mais, a la bonne heure! arretez, mon ami, said the lady to Francis Ardry, who was about to drive off; 'je voudrais bien causer un moment avec lui; arretez, il est delicieux.
"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.
Francis Ardry had, however, persuaded her to relinquish her intention for the present, on the ground that, until she had become acclimated in England, her health would probably suffer from the confinement inseparable from the occupation in which she was desirous of engaging; he had, moreover for it appeared that she was the most frank and confiding creature in the world succeeded in persuading her to permit him to hire for her a very handsome first floor in his own neighbourhood, and to accept a few inconsiderable presents in money and jewellery.
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