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You will hear the advanced enfans perdus, as the French call them, and so they are indeed, namely, children of the fall, singing unclean and fulsome ballads of sin and harlotrie. And then will come on the middle-ward, when you will hear the canticles and psalms sung by the reforming nobles, and the gentry, and honest and pious clergy, by whom they are accompanied.
Lesdites Societes publient des feuilletons de tems en tems. On les trouve abandonnes a sa porte, nus comme des enfans nouveaunes, faute de membrane cutanee, ou meme papyracee. Ainsi il est clair comme la metaphysique qu'on doit devenir membre d'une Societe telle que nous decrivons. Recette pour le Depilatoire Physiophilosophique Chaux vive lb. ss. Eau bouillante Oj. Depilez avec. Polissez ensuite.
Les enfans terribles say such things daily, and make their grandmothers' caps stand on end with their precocious astuteness; but the clever sayings of most clever children, repeated and reported by admiring friends and relations, are, for the most part, simply the result of unused faculties, exercising themselves in, to them, an unused world; only therefore surprising to worn-out faculties, which have almost ceased to exercise themselves in, to them, an almost worn-out world.
"Now, they may chant your miserere," cried the youngster. A second shot from the fore-cross-trees laid another Frenchman alongside of his companion. "Comment! diable! nous serons abimes par ces enfans la; il faut monter." The muskets were again loaded, and again each boy brought down his bird, before the Frenchmen could decide upon their operations.
Still his step was not as quick as common, and it was near a minute ere he reached the bows, or before he gained the knight-heads. But his form was no sooner visible there, than he waved his arms frantically, and shouted in a voice that reached the recesses of the vessel: "Hard up hard up with the helm, Antoine ease off the sheets, mes enfans!"
"Had he done it an hour earlier, le Feu-Follet would not have been set up on these rocks, like a vessel in a ship-yard mais, mes enfans, courage! We'll yet see if our beautiful lugger cannot be saved." If there were stoicism and bitterness in this answer, there was not deliberate cruelty.
A poor prince who is weak in cavalry, and whose whole infantry does not exceed a single man, had best quit the field, and signalize himself in the cabinet, if he can get up into it; I say UP INTO IT for there is no descending perpendicular amongst 'em with a "Me voici! mes enfans" here I am whatever many may think.
The last sighs of Cadieux seemed to expire on her lips: "'Rossignole, va dire a ma maitresse, A mes enfans, qu'un adieu je leur laisse, Que j'ai garde mon amour et ma foi, Et desormais faut renoncer a moi." A few more friends of the family dropped in Coulon de Villiers, Claude Beauharnais, La Corne St. Luc, and others, who had heard of the lady's departure and came to bid her adieu.
"Le jeun homme n'entends pas madame," observed Mimi. "Que c'est ennuyant, monsieur," said Madame Fontanges, pointing to herself; "Moi Madame de Fontanges vous," pointing to him. "Newton Forster." "Nu tong Fasta ah, c'est bon, cela commence," said the lady. "Allons, mes enfans repetez lui tous vous noms." "Moi Mimi," said the girl bearing that name, going up to Newton, and pointing to herself.
As they took their seats to the air of the "Marseillaise Hymn," more than one of the guests might be heard by his next neighbour singing to himself: "Allons, enfans de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrive."
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