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Updated: June 3, 2025
This arrangement is quite an ordinary occurrence, and is brought about without difficulties, mystery, or danger, through the offices of the same M. Kangourou. As a matter of course, we are on visiting terms with all these ladies.
So shocked was he at seeing such mere babies, so young, so tiny, already so brazen and shameless. July 18th. There are now four of us, four officers of my ship, married like myself, and inhabiting the slopes of the same suburb. It is quite an ordinary occurrence, and is arranged without difficulties, mystery or danger, through the negotiations of the same M. Kangourou.
It is too great a condescension on your part. However, anything to oblige you." He guesses at the first words what I require from him. "Of course," he replies, "we shall see about it at once. In a week's time, as it happens, a family from Simonoseki, in which there are two charming daughters, will be here!" "What! in a week! You don't know me, Monsieur Kangourou!
Really, short of marrying a china ornament, I should find it difficult to choose better. At this moment enters M. Kangourou, clad in a suit of gray tweed, which might have come from La Belle Jardiniere or the Pont Neuf, with a pot-hat and white thread gloves. His countenance is at once foolish and cunning; he has hardly any nose or eyes. "You speak French, Monsieur Kangourou?"
It is ten o'clock when all is finally settled, and M. Kangourou comes to tell me: "All is arranged, sir: her parents will give her up for twenty dollars a month, the same price as Mdlle. Jasmin."
And now I address my reproaches to Kangourou: "Why have you brought her to me in such pomp, before friends and neighbors of both sexes, instead of showing her to me discreetly, as if by chance, as I had wished? What an affront you will compel me now to put upon all these polite persons!"
M. Kangourou will come on board to-morrow to communicate to me the result of his first proceedings and to arrange with me for the interview. For the present he refuses to accept any remuneration; but I am to give him my washing, and to procure him the custom of my brother officers of the 'Triomphante. It is all settled. Profound bows they put on my boots again at the door.
From time to time I express impatience, I ask this worthy creature, whom I am less and less able to consider in a serious light: "Come now, tell us frankly, Kangourou, are we any nearer coming to some arrangement? Is all this ever going to end?" "In a moment, Monsieur, in a moment;" and he resumes his air of political economist seriously debating social problems.
He makes one for each word I utter, as if he were a mechanical toy pulled by a string; when he is seated before me on the ground, he limits himself to a duck of the head always accompanied by the same hissing noise of the saliva. "A cup of tea, M. Kangourou?" Fresh salute and an extra affected gesticulation with the hands, as if to say, "I should hardly dare.
M. Kangourou will come on board to-morrow to communicate to me the result of his first proceedings and to arrange with me for the interview. For the present he refuses to accept any remuneration; but I am to give him my washing, and to procure him the custom of my brother officers of the 'Triomphante. It is all settled. Profound bows they put on my boots again at the door.
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