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Now Royston Keene was thoroughly impregnated with the bitterest of aristocratic prejudices: no man alive more utterly ignored the doctrines of liberty, equality, and fraternity; besides this, he had acquired, to an unusual extent, the overbearing tone and demeanor which the habit of having soldiers under them is supposed to bring, too commonly, to modern centurions. He actually experienced a "fresh sensation" as he heard the insult leveled by those coarse plebeian lips at the woman "he delighted to honor." His swarthy face grew white down to the lips, whose quivering the heavy mustache could not quite conceal, and he shivered from head to foot where he stood. Jean Duchesne thought he detected the familiar signs of a terror he had often inspired. "Tu as peur donc? Tu tressailles déj
"Certainly I do," said Tu. "Then then I shall be very glad," said poor Jasmine, hesitatingly, overcome with bashfulness, but full of joy. At which gracious consent Tu recovered the hand which had been withdrawn from his, and Jasmine sank again into the chair at his side.
T'other night a neighbor of mine was a walkin hum with me and we went past the house of an old Scothman, who gits drunk every time he ken git trusted, or treated or ken git change enough fur tu buy the whiskey, and his wife ain't no better than he is.
When she wished to address either Tish or myself she held her head rigid and turned her whole body in her chair; and when she felt a sneeze coming on she clutched wildly at her head with both hands as if she expected it to fly off. Tufik was not mentioned, though twice Tish got as far as Tu and then thought better of it; but her mind was on him and we knew it.
"O, but you will have to ask him to take you, Daddy," said his little instructress, opening wide her eyes. "'Tween you and me, there's the stick, Fanny, I really don't know how fur tu ask him." "Why, Daddy, how would you ask him for bread if you were starving?" "I calculate I'd beg mighty hard if I was in sich a tight place."
As the orator gradually recovered his accustomed stern composure of manner, he turned to the counsel on the other side, one of whom, at least, was a graduate of Dartmouth, and in his deepest and most thrilling tones, thus concluded his argument: "Sir, I know not how others may feel; but for myself, when I see my Alma Mater surrounded, like Caesar in the senate-house, by those who are reiterating stab after stab, I would not, for this right hand, have her turn to me and say, Et tu quoque, mi fili!
Fwhat d'you take me for?" she sez. "A woman," sez I; "the prettiest in barricks." "A wife," sez she; "the straightest in cantonmints!" 'Wid that I dropped my arm, fell back tu paces, an' saluted, for I saw that she mint fwhat she said. 'Then you know something that some men would give a good deal to be certain of. How could you tell? I demanded in the interests of Science.
"At Ispahan, as at Ormus, whenever it was necessary on account of illness or any other cause to allow anyone to approach the prince, he was always masked; and several trustworthy persons have asserted that they had seen the masked prisoner often, and had noticed that he used the familiar 'tu' when addressing the governor, while the latter showed his charge the greatest respect.
On this, the first claimant offers to stake a sum of money, called a Sacramentum, on the justice of his own case, "Quando tu injuriâ provocasti, D æris Sacramento te provoco," and the defendant, in the phrase "Similiter ego te," accepts the wager.
'Ille to mecum locus et beatae Postulant arces ibi tu " "Don't, sir, don't. Horace again! It is too much." Fairthorn was choking; but as if the idea presented to him was really too monstrous for belief, he clutched at Darrell with so uncertain and vehement a hand that he almost caught him by the throat, and sobbed out, "You must be joking."
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