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Here were the treasures of famous bon vivants, liquors that had been tossed on ocean, and mellowed in the sun, and hoarded long in the recesses of the earth, the pale, the gold, the ruddy juice of whatever vineyards were most delicate, the entire vintage of Tokay, all mingling in one stream with the vile fluids of the common pot house, and contributing to heighten the self-same blaze.
When her daughter grew older, she allowed her to be present at the performances of plays and tableaux vivants at the evening parties, which the priests promoted under the patronage of the Bishop, in order to assist the collection of Peter's pence in Ancona; and so great was the beauty of the daughter, and the attractions of the mother, that many people would go to these entertainments who otherwise would certainly not have been seen there.
And through the twenty-five years that have passed, since the matter of life was first called protoplasm, a host of investigators, among whom Cohn, Max Schulze, and Kühne must be named as leaders, have accumulated evidence, morphological, physiological, and chemical, in favour of that "immense unité de composition élémentaire dans tous les corps vivants de la nature," into which Payen had, so early, a clear insight.
All things were swimming away from him. The last thing he knew was that he was in somebody's arms, and the somebody was running. The boat swept shoreward. A man with a musket, standing in the bows, was about to fire at the fugitives. A sharp voice stayed him. "Ne tirez point! Nous les prendrons vivants. Ce n'est qu'un seul homme et le gosse." A bugle from the shingle-bank retorted defiantly.
He did not, as so many did in Jamaica, drink claret or punch at breakfast soon after sunrise. In a land where all were bon- vivants, where the lowest tradesmen drank wine after dinner, and rum, brandy and water, or sangaree in the forenoon, a somewhat lightsome view of table-virtues might have been expected of the young unmarried planter.
This visit was naturally honored by a brilliant display of "rhetorical" spectacles and tableaux vivants; for nothing could exceed the passion of the Netherlanders of that century for apologues and charades. In allegory they found an ever-present comforter in their deepest afflictions.
They gave me to understand that the missions would, if necessary for my success, assist me with 15, 20, nay, 30,000 dollars. I had a pleasant time with these Padres, for they were all bon vivants. Their cellars were well filled with Constantia wine, their gardens highly cultivated, their poultry fat and tender, and their game always had a particular flavour.
The subjects of the tableaux vivants were, of course, most classic, for the Netherlanders were nothing, if not allegorical; yet, as spectacles, provided by burghers and artisans for the amusement of their fellow-citizens, they certainly proved a considerable culture in the people who could thus be amused. All the groups were artistically arranged.
To sit among bon vivants under palms in the swirl of concealed music, to look upon the habitues of such a paradise and to be looked upon by them what is a girl's first dance and short-sleeved tulle compared with this? Up Broadway Chandler moved with the vespertine dress parade. For this evening he was an exhibit as well as a gazer.
Some coloured lads were exquisitely graceful, and composed beautiful tableaux vivants, after Murillo's beggar-boys. A poor little, very old Bosjesman crept up, and was jeered and bullied. There was something shocking in the timidity with which he took the plate of food I gave him, and in the way in which he ate it, with the WRONG side of his little yellow hand, like a monkey.
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