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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.
His orders continue so thick that he must postpone the delivery for several days, to get new engravings thrown off, etc. Vogue la galère! From all that now appears, I shall be much better off in two or three years than if my misfortunes had never taken place. Periissem ni periissem. Dined at a dinner given by the Antiquarian Society to Mr.
England is at war with us, there is nothing therefore further to fear from her. We might hang every Englishman we can lay hands on, and England could do no more than she is doing at the present moment: bombard our ports, bluster and threaten, join hands with Flanders, and Austria and Sardinia, and the devil if she choose. Allons! vogue la galere!
I shall ever think on you with gratitude, and the worst of my censure shall be, Que diable alloit il faire dans cette galere? And thus they parted, Colonel Talbot going on board of the boat and Waverley returning to Edinburgh. It is not our purpose to intrude upon the province of history.
How rapidly we go down it, hey? strong and feeble, old and young the metal pitchers and the earthen pitchers the pretty little china boat swims gayly 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-by 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 was perfectly aware of the absurdity of this ambition. I lacked the ghost of an idea of how to set about the thing. But the general craziness of events had unhinged me. I was forming the habit of trusting to pure luck and vogue la galere!
Had they wanted to make for the sea, they would naturally have gone to the west coast. Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère? Harrison was, however, put on board a casual vessel, and remained in the ship for six weeks. Where was the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead is all the sailors know!
Here am I a journalist, sure of making six hundred francs a month if I work like a horse. But I shall find a publisher for my two books, and I will write others; for my friends will insure a success. And so, Coralie, 'vogue le galere! as you say." "You will make your way, dear boy; but you must not be as good-natured as you are good-looking; it would be the ruin of you.
Here is the dismal log of Wednesday, 4th of September: "All attempts at dining very fruitless. Basins in requisition. Wind hard ahead. Que diable allais-je faire dans cette galere? Writing or thinking impossible: so read 'Letters from the AEgean." These brief words give, I think, a complete idea of wretchedness, despair, remorse, and prostration of soul and body.
'Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere? one cannot help asking, as one watched that laborious and scrupulous scholar, that lifelong enthusiast for liberty, that almost hysterical reviler of priesthood and persecution, trailing his learning so discrepantly along the dusty Roman way. But, there are some who know how to wear their Rome with a difference; and Lord Acton was one of these.
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