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The convention, which had gathered for another purpose, another candidate, and a new policy, hailed with delight its old and splendid leader. Commodore Vanderbilt had a great admiration for Dean Richmond. The commodore disliked boasters and braggarts intensely.
"You are not well," he said, with instant show of curiosity; "your wounds still trouble you? They should be healed. Gabord was ordered to see you cared for." "Gabord has done well enough," answered I. "I have had wounds before, monsieur." He leaned against the wall and laughed. "What braggarts you English are!" he said. "A race of swashbucklers even on bread and water!"
I saw him at Culloden, when all was lost, doing more than twenty of these bleezing braggarts, till the very soldiers that took him cried not to hurt him for all somebody's orders, provost for he was the bravest fellow of them all.
You man without a country! You soldier of fortune! A Swabian the commander of these stiffnecked braggarts. Now see how I'll help you." "What do you mean to do?" asked Ulrich; but Hans Eitelfritz had already raised the huge goblet, banging it down again so violently that the table shook.
"Alas," he cried, "vain braggarts, women forsooth not men, double-dyed indeed will be the stain upon us if no man of the Danaans will now face Hector. May you be turned every man of you into earth and water as you sit spiritless and inglorious in your places. I will myself go out against this man, but the upshot of the fight will be from on high in the hands of the immortal gods."
"In that case," replied Nelson, "you are nearly two to one, and I venture to think that we have not come up the river for nothing." "What braggarts you English are!" "Is it bragging to welcome a stirring fight? Are you well provided with cannon?" "You will learn that for yourself when you come within sight of the fort. Have you any more questions to ask, Senor Sailor?" "Yes; one.
How we all brag and bounce, and beat the drum and shout; and nobody believes a word we utter; and the people ask one another, saying: "How can we tell who is the greatest and the cleverest among all these shrieking braggarts?" And they answer: "There is none great or clever. The great and clever men are not here; there is no place for them in this pandemonium of charlatans and quacks.
In time this commerce increased until it gave employment to hordes of rough and hardy men; rude, uneducated, brave, suffering terrific hardships with sailor-like stoicism; heavy drinkers, coarse frolickers in moral sties like the Natchez-under-the-hill of that day, heavy fighters, reckless fellows, every one, elephantinely jolly, foul-witted, profane; prodigal of their money, bankrupt at the end of the trip, fond of barbaric finery, prodigious braggarts; yet, in the main, honest, trustworthy, faithful to promises and duty, and often picturesquely magnanimous.
Fools and braggarts are often brave men. The Parisians have an indomitable pride, they have called upon the world to witness their achievements, and the thought of King William riding in triumph along the Boulevards is so bitter a one, that it may nerve them to the wildest desperation.
I distinguished the troop of the Princess of Pride, not only because they insisted upon the foremost position, but also because they stumbled now and then from want of keeping their eyes upon the ground. She led captive kings without number, princes, courtiers, noblemen and braggarts, many Quakers, and women innumerable and of all grades.
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