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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Le Polisson corsair Francois what you load, eh?" "Sugar and coffee, with cochineal, and a few other articles." "Peste! Vere you boun', Monsieur, s'il vous plait." "Hamburg." "Diable! zis is non ze chemin. How you come her, sair, viz ze vin' at sow-vess?" "We are going in to Brest, being in need of a little succour." "You vish salvage, eh! Parbleu, we can do you zat mosh good, as veil as anodair."
I was then ordered, privateer fashion, to lower a boat, and to repair on board the lugger with my papers. When old I had no stern or quarter-boat to lower, the Frenchman Manifested surprise; but he sent his own yawl for me. My reception on board the Polisson was a little free for Frenchmen.
Ah! sacre petit polisson de Napoleon! have I found thee at last? Now then, sir two tight double knots each way with your honorable permission, and the money's safe. Feel it! feel it, fortunate sir! hard and round as a cannon-ball Ah, bah! if they had only fired such cannon-balls at us at Austerlitz nom d'une pipe! if they only had!
The vessel Marble distrusted, I unhesitatingly pronounced to be a lugger; quite as likely the Polisson as any other craft. The other four vessels were all ships, the five forming a complete circle, of which the Dawn was in the centre.
But Dumont, though erected by circumstances into a tyrant, is not sanguinary he is by nature and education passionate and gross, and in other times might only have been a good natured Polisson. Hitherto he has contented himself with alarming, and making people tired of their lives, but I do not believe he has been the direct or intentional cause of anyone's death.
"Monsieur," said the Countess, her eyes flashing as she spoke, "vous êtes un polisson! von rascal! von dem villain! un charlatan! von nasty bastely ross bif! dem dog!" and thereupon she curled her fingers and set her teeth on edge as though she would tear his very eyes out.
"Yes; most of the time, at any rate. Nature is fully half of life to me." Again there was a pause. "Well, you next, Polisson," said Armstrong, finally. "Let's hear what your programme is." "Oh, nothing in the least interesting," I replied. "My future is all cut and dried. I shall spend the next two years in the south of France mainly at Lyons to learn the details of the silk manufacture.
It was just ten o'clock when the Polisson ranged up abeam of us the second time, and we hove-to. It was evident the French recognised us, and the clamour that succeeded must have resembled that of Babel, when the people began first to converse without making themselves understood.
The corvette was already so near, as to render it necessary for the Polisson to be in motion; another time, perhaps, we might be more fortunate. In this manner did I part from a man who had not scrupled to seize me in distress, as he would a waif on a beach. By manning me, the prize-crew would have fallen into the hands of the enemy; and, making a merit of necessity, Mons.
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