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"Now I fixed upon the stock-broker a terrible glare and stepped toward him. 'Money miscreant! I yelled, 'you it was who tried first to murder me, and then to turn the hearts of all these good men against me! I raised my capstan-bar in the air. 'Aroint thee, fiend! I yelled. 'Get thee below; and if anon I see thee I will break thy dastardly skull!
Aroint thee, wench! I sorrow for the vagabond student of the Latin Quarter now, even more than formerly I envied him. Thus topples to earth another idol of my infancy. We have seen every thing, and tomorrow we go to Versailles. We shall see Paris only for a little while as we come back to take up our line of march for the ship, and so I may as well bid the beautiful city a regretful farewell.
"Since 'Aroint thee, witch, is your creed, I think you had better try him." "Not an unnatural transition," replied the stranger, smiling; "but what is he like? Give me an outline." "He is named the Rev. Peter M'Mahon,and I forewarn you, that you are as likely, if he be not in the mood, to get such a reception as you may not relish.
"Doing what?" "Arointing it. Don't you know, you say, 'Aroint thee, witch, when you want to get rid of her? Well, if a witch can be arointed, why shouldn't she aroint other things?" "All very well, if you understand the process. Do you?" "Of course. It's done 'with woven paces and with waving arms. 'Beware, beware; her flashing eyes, her float " "Stop it!
"A murrain on the hag! she does not even struggle!" said, at last, the hump-backed tinker. "No, no! she cares not for water. Try fire! Out with her! out!" cried Red Grisell. "Aroint her! she is sullen!" said the tinker, as his lean fingers clutched up the dead body, and let it fall upon the margin. "Dead!" said the baker, shuddering; "we have done wrong, I told ye so!
Aroint thee, wench! I sorrow for the vagabond student of the Latin Quarter now, even more than formerly I envied him. Thus topples to earth another idol of my infancy. We have seen every thing, and tomorrow we go to Versailles. We shall see Paris only for a little while as we come back to take up our line of march for the ship, and so I may as well bid the beautiful city a regretful farewell.
Aroint thee, wench! I sorrow for the vagabond student of the Latin Quarter now, even more than formerly I envied him. Thus topples to earth another idol of my infancy. We have seen every thing, and tomorrow we go to Versailles. We shall see Paris only for a little while as we come back to take up our line of march for the ship, and so I may as well bid the beautiful city a regretful farewell.
"Aroint thee, witch! wouldst thou poison my guests with thy infernal decoctions? Dost thou not remember how it fared with the clergyman whom you seduced to partake of that deceitful beverage?"
To cheerful, hearty, care-dispelling humour, to such merry faces as Pickwick and Co. inimitable Pickwick hail, all hail! but triumphs of burglary, and escapes of murderers, aroint ye! Why then should I throw this cargo overboard?
Here the Countess Isabelle stopped, the Abbess observing, with a prim aspect, that she had read quite enough concerning such worldly vanities, and the Count of Crevecoeur, breaking out, "Aroint thee, deceitful witch! Why, this device smells rank as the toasted cheese in a rat trap. Now fie, and double fie, upon the old decoy duck!"
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