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Pure foy! but I know what I should say, if I said just what I think." "It is sometimes quite as well not to do that, Magot." "Ha! Perhaps it is, when one may get into prison by it. It is a comfort one can always think. Neither Pope nor King can stop that." "Magot, my dear child!" "Oh yes, I know! You think I am horribly imprudent, Aunt Marjory.
Sligo Moultrie can not help hearing every word, although he pares a peach and offers it to Miss Magot. "Miss Grace, do you remember what I said once of honest admiration that if it were eloquent it would be irresistible?" Grace Plumer bows an assent. "But that its mere consciousness a sort of silent eloquence is pure happiness to him who feels it?"
But it is not generally known that, on European ground, the magot is not confined solely to the Gibraltar Rock. It is also found in other parts of the south of Spain; and, it is likely enough, has existed there long enough to claim the character of a native. In the chain of natural affinities, the Baboons, or dog-headed monkeys, stand next to the macacoes.
The last word had scarcely left the pedlar's lips, when the door of the ante-chamber was flung open, and a boy of Margaret's age burst into the room. He was fair-haired and bright-faced, with a slender, elegant figure, and all his motions were very agile. Beginning with "I say, Magot!" he stopped suddenly both tongue and feet as he caught sight of the Countess.
Miss Wayne, I hear, is very beautiful, and about your age. Is it true about her being an heiress? "What is the news let me see. Oh! your cousin, Laura Magot, is engaged, and she has made a capital match. She will be eighteen on her next birthday; and the happy man is Mellish Whitloe. It is the fine old Knickerbocker family.
It was worked into the ground glass of the door that led from his dining-room to the back stairs. He had his paper stamped with it; and a great many of his neighbors, thinking it a neat and becoming ornament, imitated him in its generous use. Mrs. Newt's family had a crest also. She was a Magot another of the fine old families which came to this country at the earliest possible period.
"Now, Aunt Marjory, you are laughing at me, because you know I like them. But don't you think it is absurd the way in which people insist on fancying themselves poisoned whenever they are ill? It looks as if every human being were a monster of wickedness!" "What would Father Warner say they are, Magot?"
Here is a little money come for you from France; it has not been stolen, so it will have no spice for you! Racoleur! Here is a love-billet from some simpleton, with a knife as a souvenir; sharpen it on the Arbicos. Poupard, Loup-terrible, Jean Pagnote, Pince-Maille, Louis Magot, Jules Goupil here! There are your letters, your papers, your commissions. Biribi forgot nothing.
Newt, who never said, "I see the Magots have hired a hackney-coach from Jobbers to make calls in. They quarreled with Gudging over his last bill. Medora Magot has turned her last year's silk, which is a little stained and worn; but then it does just as well." By-and-by her nephew Boniface married Medora's sister, Nancy. It was Mrs. Dagon who sat with Mrs. Newt in her parlor, and said to her,
Aunt Marjory, it is no use, he is horrid, and I hate him! He hates my fair father. Do you expect me to love him?" "Well done, Magot!" said another voice. "When I want a lawyer to plead my cause, I will send for thee. Christ save you, fair Sister! I heard you were here, with this piece of enthusiasm." Both the girls rose to greet the Earl, Margaret courtesying low as beseemed a daughter.
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