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Which of us is there, who has not passed moments in the company of these brutes, such as might well 'score years from a strong man's life'? Some of us have been gored by the brutes, and most of us, who have pursued the crafty snipe bird in his native pâdi swamps, have put in various mauvais quarts d'heure, with some of these sullenly vindictive animals mouching after us, much in the way that a gendarme pursues a gamin.
Felix told his story, feeling it too much not to make it lame, and with the tearfulness trembling in his voice and eyes all the time. 'Our little gamin has the most of the good Samaritan in him, said Mr. Audley. ''Tis not quite the end I should have begun at, but perhaps it may work the better. 'Dear little boy, that he should have remembered that sermon! exclaimed Wilmet.
The newspaper man looked on and listened through a film. The brazen patter of his young friend rippled on. A growing gamin coarseness in her talk with a nervous, restless twitter underneath. Her dark child eyes, perverse under their touch of black paint, swung eagerly through the crowd. Her talk of Johns, of dumb times and moldy times, of classy times and classy memories varied only slightly.
"I had put on the kettle in the kitchen for Mrs. Horridge. It will be boiling by this time." Lady O'Gara was about to refuse. Then she changed her mind. A refusal might hurt Mrs. Wade. Beyond that she had a sudden curiosity, her husband had often said that she had a touch of the gamin as to how Mrs. Wade would give her tea. Would she sit down with her in the equality of an afternoon call?
"Yes," I went on. "You see, the street gamin loves nothing better in the way of diversion than throwing things at somebody, particularly if that somebody is what is known to his vernacular as a Willie-boy. As between eating an over-ripe peach and throwing it at the pot-hat of a Willie-boy, the ragamuffin would deny even the cravings of his stomach for that tender morsel.
Discovering my mistake upon arriving at the Rue Poussen, I am more fortunate in my attack upon the interpreting abilities of a passing citizen, who sends an Elbeuf gamin to guide me to the post-office.
It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats."
He followed the young man with the interest and the undisguised admiration of a Paris gamin watching an aristocrat go to the guillotine. As the long back disappeared round a corner, the lad turned to Cherry and winked. "Guts," he said. The ostler led the old horse with dripping muzzle away from the water-trough. The expression on his face seemed to suggest that the other was a vulgar fellow.
King Louis then reigned in Bavaria, but being so indifferent a prophet could not foresee his own speedy abdication. The original stuff out of which a French workman is made, is a street boy of fourteen years old, or, perhaps, twelve. That young gamin de Paris can sing as many love ditties and drinking songs as there are hairs upon his head, before he knows how much is nine times seven.
He spoke gruffly to the king, and ordered him about as if he had been an apprentice; to which the king always submitted. He not only endured this treatment, but entrusted Gamin with various secret commissions, which were sometimes of great importance. The account which Gamin gave of the king was that he was kind and forbearing, timid, inquisitive, and very apt to go to sleep.
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