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Sherringham scented interference now, and interference in rather an invidious form. It might be a bore, from the point of view of the profession, to find one's self, as a critic of the stage, in love with a coquine; but it was a much greater bore to find one's self in love with a young woman whose character remained to be estimated.
'It is because one is ignorant, you see, or one is bad on peut toujours etre une coquine! And one forgets one thinks one can be always young, and love is all pleasure and it is not true! one get old and there is the child and one may die of it. She spoke with the utmost simplicity, yet with a certain intensity.
Beside me in the school-room sat a buxom peasant-woman, who, as a little girl crowned with a gaudy tinsel wreath descended from the platform, confidentially informed me, "C'est ma fille. She has taken the prize for good conduct, and there isn't a worse coquine in our whole commune."
There was much more than ready-made love in these arrangements; anyone may buy that for ready-money; but a ready-made progeny, a ready-made household, and a ready-made wife, without one stiver of ready money, was the astonishment; but English sailors can do anything. Well, at Number 14, Rue Coquine, I accepted the purser's invitation to dinner at four, en famille. It seemed quite natural.
'Life is a dream, observed Monkey, while Jinny seemed uncertain whether she should laugh or take it seriously. The Widow Jequier overheard her. There was little she did not overhear. 'Coquine! she said, then quoted with a sentimental sigh: La vie est breve, Un peu d'amour. Un peu de rive Et puis bonjour! She hung her head sideways a moment for effect. There was a pause all down the long table.
They are therefore very careful in praising, and sometimes express themselves in language the very reverse of what they intend, as, "'Va, coquine! says Bandalaccio, in M. Merimee's pleasant story of "Colomba," 'sois excommuniee, sois maudite, friponne! Car Bandalaccio, superstitieux comme tous les bandits, craignait de fasciner les enfans en les addressant les benedictions et les eloges.
"Still, we're safe, and I've known men killed or lamed for life getting off a horse." "But with the horse you have the whip, with the machine you have only the rags to clean her with. Ah! coquine, I should like to flog you, to give you beans." He shook his fist at the engine. Smith laughed. "Beans would suit a horse better, Roddy," he said.
That young executive was much surprised, but returned the salute and squeezed her tiny waist. All the company laughed at this, except Madame Bapp, who glared angrily and exclaimed, "Coquine!" which means hussy. The Marquesans have no kisses in their native love-making, but smell one or rub noses, as do the Eskimo. Whites, however, have taught kisses in all their variety.
As for the women found among these men, they were to suffer the cucking-stool this is a tumbrel, the name of which is composed of the French word coquine, and the German stuhl. English law being endowed with a strange longevity, this punishment still exists in English legislation for quarrelsome women. The cucking-stool is suspended over a river or a pond, the woman seated on it.
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