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The king gratified him by sending whole shiploads of them in charge of nuns. As to who they were, and where they came from, one cannot be altogether sure. The English agent at Paris wrote that they were 'lewd strumpets gathered up by the officers of the city, and even the saintly Mere Marie de l'Incarnation confessed that there was beaucoup de canaille among them.
Many lords and ladies wish to keep their faces from the canaille." I drew a breath of resignation and put it on. "Am I not a comely man?" the lady asked, one touch of woman's vanity showing through it all. "Yes, by my faith, madame;" but such sayings were foreign to my awkward tongue. She led me out of the palace by a private way, and when the street was reached we walked along as two men would.
I have had no opportunity to find out any thing about the upper classes by my own observation, but from what I hear said about them I judge that what they lack in one or two of the bad traits the canaille have, they make up in one or two others that are worse. How the people beg! many of them very well dressed, too. I said I knew nothing against the upper classes by personal observation.
Had the occasion been more propitious, the Count could scarcely have refrained from commenting upon this remarkably republican criticism; but, as it was, he deemed it more advisable to hunt with the hounds. "That canaille!" he shouted. "Ha, ha! Lord Tulliwuddle would never so far demean himself!" "I have it from old Gallosh himself," declared Mr. Maddison.
Shall I tell him how a company of noblemen backed by their servants under arms six hundred men in all sought to dictate to the Third Estate of Rennes a few short weeks ago? Must I remind him of the martial front shown on that occasion by the Third Estate, and how they swept the streets clean of that rabble of nobles cette canaille noble..." Applause interrupted him.
"As much as anything for what he must think of me when he realises how shamefully I have used him." "And does it matter what the canaille thinks? Shall it matter what the citizen-assassin thinks?" "A little, Madame," she sighed. "He will despise me as I deserve.
His fine manners, to be sure, forbade his showing it; on no account would he have shown it. But the puzzle was, he could not feel it. She met his eyes. "No . . . why should I despise them?" "They are canaille." "What does that mean? . . . They have been cruel to me. Afterwards, I expect, they will be crueller still. But just now it does not matter, because you are here."
Wandering as were his wits, he caught the last word and turned fiercely round; but there was no recognition in his eye. "Trade, Monsieur!" he echoed. "Trade! you shall not call him trade! Do you know who I am, that you dare call him trade? Dieu des Dieux! N'est-ce pas que je suis noble, moi? Trade! when did one of my race embrace a trade? Canaille!
"Really, Mr Walton, I am astonished at your making such a request!" exclaimed Mrs Oldcastle, with suitable emphasis on every salient syllable, while her white face flushed with anger. "To ask Miss Oldcastle to accompany you to the dwelling of the ringleader of all the canaille of the neighbourhood!" "It is for the sake of justice," I interposed. "That is no concern of ours.
For all that he found his hands full till, by a trick of jiu-jitsu, he wrenched one of the fellow's arms behind him so roughly as almost to dislocate it at the shoulder and, forcing the forearm up toward his shoulder blades, held him temporarily helpless. "Be still, you murderous canaille!" he growled "or must I tear your arm from its socket? Still, I say!"
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