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Strong and feeble, old and young the metal pitchers and the earthen pitchers the pretty little china boat swims gaily till the big bruised brazen one bumps him and sends him down eh, vogue la galere! you see a man sink in the race, and say good-bye to him look, he has only dived under the other fellow's legs, and comes up shaking his pole, and striking out ever so far ahead.
I have reason to believe, moreover, that he suspects me of limited means and of being a good deal of an economist Amen! Vogue la galère! But the point of my story is in his very hospitable offer of lodgings. I had been telling him of my ill success of the morning in the pursuit of the same. He is an odd union of the gentleman of the old school and the old-fashioned, hot-headed merchant-captain.
Most of them were of men, but there were two or three girls in tights, and there was one of a stout and venerable woman, evidently highly respectable, seated in an arm-chair, with staring bead-like eyes, but a sweet and gentle mouth. Her hair was arranged in glossy bands. Her hands held a large book, probably a Bible. Julian looked at her and wondered a little how she chanced to be in this galère.
I always like people who know the same songs we do, and books and tunes and things. The others came out. The lady looked very uncomfy, and partly as if she was going to cry. But she couldn't help laughing too, as more and more of us came out. 'And who, the clergyman went on, 'who in fortune's name is Albert? And who is his uncle? And what have they or you to do in this galere I mean garden?
Laidlaw, the model of a clerk in other respects, is not come yet. He has never known the value of time, so is not quite accurate in punctuality; but that, I hope, will come if I can drill him to it without hurting him. I think I hear him coming. I am like the poor wizard who is first puzzled how to raise the devil and then how to employ him. But vogue la galère.
Eh, vogue la galere, I say. It's good sport, Warrington not winning merely, but playing." "Well, go in and win, young 'un. I'll sit and mark the game," Warrington said, surveying the ardent young fellow with an almost fatherly pleasure.
But now, of course, I shall stay on shore with my uncle to-morrow. Qu'irais je faire dana cette galere? you have done it all for me. Oh, my dear, dear uncle, I am so grateful to you!" She showed symptoms of caressing Mr. Fountain, but he recoiled from her angrily. "Viper! but no, this is not you. There is a deeper hand than you in all this. This is that Mrs. Bazalgette's doings."
That's the secret of his servant-of-the-people pose gad, I believe it's the whole secret of his marriage! He's devouring my daughter's substance to pay off an old score against the mills. He'll never rest till he has Truscomb out, and some creature of his own in command and then, vogue la galère! If it were women, now," Mr.
"Is that what brings you to Zenda, Prefect?" I asked. "Why no, sire; I am here because I desired to oblige the British Ambassador." "What's the British Ambassador doing dans cette galere?" said I, carelessly. "A young countryman of his, sire a man of some position is missing. His friends have not heard from him for two months, and there is reason to believe that he was last seen in Zenda."
The disdainful ocean did not open wide to swallow up my audacity, though the ship, the ridiculous and ancient galere of my folly, the old, weary, disenchanted sugar-waggon, seemed extremely disposed to open out and swallow up as much salt water as she could hold. This, if less grandiose, would have been as final a catastrophe. But no catastrophe occurred.
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