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In addition, a pair of very muddy boots indicated that he had come on foot and from some distance to the coach office. With a rapid look this artist seized the whole scene of the Lion d'Argent, the stables, the courtyard, the various lights and shades, and the details; then he looked at Mistigris, whose satirical glance had followed his own. "Charming!" said Mistigris.
"Riot has but one language," said the astute statesman Mistigris. "Well," continued Schinner, "when I was brought into court in presence of the magistrates, I learned that the cursed corsair was dead, poisoned by Zena. I'd liked to have changed linen then. Give you my word, I knew nothing of that melodrama. The immense fortune of that cursed pirate was really the cause of all my Zena's troubles.
He offered the same to Mistigris and his master, who refused with smiles; but the friend of Ali Tebelen profited by the occasion to ask the pair their names. "Oh! monsieur," said Mistigris' master, "I am not blessed, like you, with an illustrious name; and I have not returned from Asia "
"I am never more than half an hour late," asserted Pierrotin. "Well, you are not wheeling the Pope in this old barrow of yours," said Georges, "so, get on." "Perhaps he's afraid of shaking monsieur," said Mistigris looking round at the count. "But you shouldn't have preferences, Pierrotin, it isn't right." "Coucous and the Charter make all Frenchmen equals," said Georges.
After giving him a dish of broken meat, which he ate with great relish, they arranged the hours for his meals, the employment of his days, and the place where he was to sleep. They thought also to give him a name. Mother Michel and Father Lustucru proposed several that were quite happy, such as Mistigris, Tristepatte, etc.; but the Countess rejected them all successively.
Well, anyhow, the lesson is a good one; and if ever again I am caught bragging in a public coach " "It is a stupid thing to do," said Joseph Bridau. "And common," added Mistigris. "'Vulgarity is the brother of pretension."
"Hang it! people don't tell such things about their friends in public conveyances," exclaimed Mistigris. "As for me, I'm not listening to you; I'm deaf: 'discretion plays the better part of adder." "'A poet is nasty and not fit, and so is a tale-bearer," cried Schinner. "Great painter," said Georges, sententiously, "learn this: you can't say harm of people you don't know.
"Monseigneur," replied the artist, "I did wrong to take such a celebrated name out of mere bravado; but this day will oblige me to do fine things for you, and so bring credit on my own name of Joseph Bridau." "You took up my defence," said the count, hastily; "and I hope you will give me the pleasure of dining with me, as well as my lively friend Mistigris."
"A special kind of bread and chocolate, yes, monsieur," returned Oscar; "my stomach is much too delicate to digest the victuals of a tavern." "'Victuals' is a word as delicate and refined as your stomach," said Georges. "Ah! I like that word 'victuals," cried the great painter. "The word is all the fashion in the best society," said Mistigris. "I use it myself at the cafe of the Black Hen."
That's why, in despair, left all to myself, I went off to the wars as a private in 1813. Well, to go back to the time I returned to Greece; you wouldn't believe with what joy old Ali Tebelen received the grandson of Czerni-Georges. Here, of course, I call myself simply Georges. The pacha gave me a harem " "You have had a harem?" said Oscar. "Were you a pacha with many tails?" asked Mistigris.
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