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"He will say that he very much regrets that you should have taken the trouble to waste your money upon him, as he did last birthday, when we exerted ourselves to lay out ten shillings and sixpence on that spectacle-case," answers Bobby, cheerfully. "But what is it?" "What is it?" cry Barbara and Tou Tou in a breath.
"Have you something to say to us?" asked Jean Thompson, frowning at her law-defying bonnet. "Oui," replied the woman, shrinking to one side, and laying hold of one of the benches, "mo oulé di' tou' ç'ose" I want to tell every thing. "Miché Vignevielle la plis bon homme di moune" the best man in the world; "mo pas capabe li fé tracas" I cannot give him trouble.
At home, if I grew tired of talking to one, I could talk to another. If I waxed weary of Bobby's sea-tales, I might refresh myself with listening to the Brat's braggings about Oxford with Tou Tou's murdered French lesson: J'aime, I love. Tu aimes, Thou lovest. Il aime, He loves. How many thousand years ago, the labored conjugation of that verb seems to me!
Her nine sons have their palaces in the neighbouring stars. Tou Mu wears the Buddhist crown, is seated on a lotus throne, has three eyes, eighteen arms, and holds various precious objects in her numerous hands, such as a bow, spear, sword, flag, dragon's head, pagoda, five chariots, sun's disk, moon's disk, etc.
The tale lapsed for a smoking spell. "Beaten to Death perished by the club? He was well named," said I. "His father was a prophet." Kahuiti began to chant in a weird monotone. "Va! Va! A tahi a ta! Va! A tahi va! A ua va! A tou va!" was his chant. "Thus said the war-club as it crashed on the skull of Beaten to Death. That is the speech of the war-club when it strikes.
You see, that's exactly like our Russia, those devils that come out of the sick man and enter into the swine. They are all the sores, all the foul contagions, all the impurities, all the devils great and small that have multiplied in that great invalid, our beloved Russia, in the course of ages and ages. Oui, cette Russie que j'aimais tou jours.
Barbara's death has shaken him very much. Mother is with him always, nursing him, and being at his beck and call, and I see nothing of her. Tou Tou has gone to school, and so it comes to pass that, in the late populous school-room, I sit alone.
My mind begins to grow more easy. I am even sensible of a little feeling of funny elation at the sound of the fiddles gayly squeaking. I can look about me and laugh inwardly at the distant sight of Tou Tou and the button-boy turning each other nimbly round; of father, in the fourth figure, blandly backing between Mrs. Mitchell and a cook-maid. We have now reached the fifth.
Tou Tou, indeed, adduces a gloomy case of a young man, who spent two years and a half in dumb longing, and broke a blood-vessel and died at the end of them; but this is so discouraging an anecdote, that we all poo-poohed it as unauthentic. "Perhaps he does not mean to speak at all!" says the Brat, starting a new and hazardous idea; "perhaps he means to take it for granted!"
There is a Morvandau song, known to all the little shepherdesses, in illustration of the custom: Mes parents s'y mariant tou Me j'garde l'ane taut mon saoul! Mais quand mon tour viendra Gardera l'ane qui voudra." At first we had a swift little animal, which could not be stopped at all when he was behind another carriage, till that carriage stopped first.
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