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His horses are sleek and lazy and prance slowly before his state carriage; and his house-dogs sleep quietly about the door and will hardly bark at a housebreaker. His family mansion is an old castellated manor-house, gray with age, and of a most venerable though weather-beaten appearance.
'You are such an arbitrary creature! she said fretfully: 'you prance about the world like Don Quixote, and expect me to play Sancho without a murmur. 'How many drubbings have I brought you yet? he asked her, laughing. He was really very fond of her. 'It is true there is a point of likeness; I won't take your advice. But then why don't you give me better?
Ten years before, in night and suffering, Olivier the little Gallic cock had with his frail song announced the distant day. The singer was no more; but his song was coming to pass. In the garden of Prance the birds were singing. And, above all the singing, clearer, louder, happier, Christophe suddenly heard the voice of Olivier come to life again.
Oates mouthed the name. "The Queen's confessor. I was spit upon by him at St. Omer, and would waipe out the affront. A dog of a Frainch priest! A man I have long abhaarred." "So also have I." Prance had venom in his level voice. "But he is no Frenchman. He is English as you a Phayre out of Huntingdon." The name penetrated Lovel's dulled wits. Phayre!
"Well, it's the principal interest, in there." And Doctor Prance now vaguely indicated, with a movement of her head, a small white house, much detached from its neighbours, which stood on their left, with its back to the water, at a little distance from the road.
If he sometimes entered upon the topic of politics, so vividly attacked, so warmly defended, so frequently discussed in Prance, it was rather to point out what he deemed dangerous or erroneous in the opinions advanced by others than to win attention for his own.
Paddy Maloney and the well-sinkers, after belting and blasting all day long, used to drop in at night, and throw the table outside, and take the girls up, and prance about the floor with them till all hours. Nearly every week Mother gave a ball. It might have been every night only for Dad. He said the jumping about destroyed the ground-floor wore it away and made the room like a well.
The wine is spent, the tale is spun, The revelry of youth is done. The horses prance, the bridles clink, While maidens fair in bright array With us the last sweet goblet drink, Then bid us, "Mount and away!"
To this picture it is hardly necessary to add the means by which Prance has been enabled to effect all this, namely, the apparently entire destruction of one of the largest and certainly the highest disciplined and best appointed army ever seen, headed by the first military sovereign in Europe, with a captain under him of the greatest renown; and that without a blow given or received on any side.
Moreover, the hilarity behind them seemed to have proved infectious, for every now and again a leader or a wheeler would prance about as though joining in the fun, and presently another animal became infected and wanted to prance, too. Had she not, the next chapter need not have been written.
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