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Praefatus autem mons magnus, vocatur hortus Abrahae, ex eo quod Abraham patriarcha ibi dicitur commoratus, et currit prope montem riuulus, in cuius aqua vel fonte Deus sal per Helizeum prophetam mitti iussit, vt sanaretur sterilitas, id est, amaritudo aquae. Nec distat hic mons a Ierico vltra grandem leucam. De notabilibus alijs locis, et mari mortuo.
'Tis fit they should be looked after well; for they cost me a pretty penny more than their heads are worth, and yours into the bargain; but I was resolved, as we were to come to this Montem, to come in style. Miss Burs. In style, to be sure; for all the world's to be here the King, the Prince of WHales, and Duke o' York, and all the first people; and we shall cut a dash!
Then she can speak French like a native, or at least what will seem to Robinson and the others like a native. Upon my life, I think I might do worse. But then, again, she'll have relatives, awful relatives, whom I shall have to buy off, or, worse, who will not be bought off. It's certainly a dreadful come-down. Susan. Montem, sir; Susan Montem. It's not at all a bad name.
And more high upon that mountain is the chapel of Elijah the prophet; and that place they clepe Horeb, whereof holy writ speaketh, ET AMBULAVIT IN FORTITUDINE CIBI ILLIUS USQUE, AD MONTEM OREB; that is to say, 'And he went in strength of that meat unto the hill of God, Horeb. And there nigh is the vine that Saint John the Evangelist planted that men clepe raisins of Staphis.
Ah, but then she's sure to have brothers and sisters, pipe-smoking, gin-drinking brothers, and sisters who will have married idle mechanics, with executions in their houses every quarter-day. Susan, my dear, how many brothers and sisters have you? When my dear missis died I was left quite alone in the world. Nokes. Confound them, it makes me nervous. So your name's Montem, at present, is it?
He was disappointed, rather amazed; but Madame Colonna having sent for him to introduce her to some of the scenes and details of Eton life, his vexation was soon absorbed in the pride of acting in the face of his companions as the cavalier of a beautiful lady, and becoming the cicerone of the most brilliant party that had attended Montem. He presented his friends, too, to Lord.
He is a great 'scholar' too, to use the country phrase; his 'piece, as our village schoolmaster terms a fine sheet of flourishing writing, something between a valentine and a sampler, enclosed within a border of little coloured prints his last, I remember, was encircled by an engraved history of Moses, beginning at the finding in the bulrushes, with Pharaoh's daughter dressed in a rose-coloured gown and blue feathers his piece is not only the admiration of the school, but of the parish, and is sent triumphantly round from house to house at Christmas, to extort halfpence and sixpences from all encouragers of learning Montem in miniature.
You are going on, I suppose, ma'am? Not if she could help it; but there's no beds, since Mr. Bursal and Miss Bursal's come. Landlord. I say nothing, for it is vain to say more. But isn't it a pity she can't stay for the Montem, poor old lady! Her son as good and fine a lad as ever you saw they say, has a chance, too, of being captain. She may never live to see another such a sight. Farm.
He would have seen his son-in-law, once master of a noble stud, now, for want of a horse, obliged to carry off his father up- hill on his own back, "cessi et sublato, montem genitore petivi." He would have heard of his grandson being thrown neck and heels from a high tower, "mittitur Astyanax illis de turribus."
*Salt, the cant name given by the Eton lads to the money collected at Montem. Landlord. And no bad thing, before he sets out for Cambridge or Oxford, 'twould be for a young gentleman to pay his debts. Wheel. Debts! Oh, time enough for that. I've a little account with you in horses, I know; but that's between you and me, you know mum. Landlord. Mum me no mums, Mr. Wheeler.
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