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Becker, Wolston, and Sophia got inside; whilst Ernest and Jack, mounted on ostriches that had been trained and broken in as riding horses, took up a position on each side, where the doors of the vehicle ought to have been. These dispositions made, after a few lashes from the whip, this party started off at a brisk rate in the direction of Waldeck.
"In point of fact," observed Wolston, "if, instead of being made part and parcel of the appliances of a fashionable man, cigars and meershaums were classed in the pharmacopoeia with emetics and cataplasms, there is not a human being but would bemoan his fate if compelled to undergo a dose."
"Friction must be tried instantly," cried Becker; "here, take this flannel and rub her body smartly with it particularly her breast and back." Mrs. Wolston instinctively followed these directions. "It is of importance to warm her feet," continued Becker; "but, unfortunately, we have no means on board to make a fire." Mrs. Wolston, in her trepidation, began breathing upon them.
Wolston, Frank, and Ernest kept up a lively conversation, yet, though all seemed happy and pleased, there were bursting hearts at the table that day." "I am going to take a turn in the pinnace to-morrow," said Willis, quietly; "who will go with me?" "I will!" cried all the four brothers.
"Those who possessed two thousand francs income were only allowed to wear one dress a year, the cloth for which was not permitted to exceed tenpence a yard; but ladies of rank could go as high as fifteen pence." "Philip le Bel must have been an old woman," insisted Mrs. Wolston. "No private citizen was permitted to use a carriage, and such persons were likewise interdicted the use of flambeaux."
"But now, my friends, what do you say to going down to the shore to meet the pinnace, and perhaps the Nelson?" said Mrs. Becker. "Ah, yes," said Sophia; "and I will stay at home to wait upon father." "No," said Mary; "I am the eldest that is my right." "Well, my children, do not quarrel about that," said Wolston; "I feel rather better; and I dare say a walk will do me good.
I am, therefore, resolved to become either a great composer, like Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; a renowned painter, like Titian, Carrache, or Veronese; or a great poet, like Homer, Virgil, Shakspeare, Dante, Milton, Goethe, and Racine." "That is to say," remarked Mrs. Wolston, "that you are resolved to be a great something or other."
"I shall require you, Frank and Ernest, to take a look at the rice plantation to-morrow," said Becker, "so I wish you to put off the excursion till another time." "We are at your orders, father," replied the two young men. "Where are you going, Willis?" inquired Mrs. Wolston.
Wolston, "and I would recommend you to enrol yourself in that list of conquerors, Master Fritz." "The more especially," observed Jack, "as you have no impediment in your voice, and would not have to undergo a course of pebbles like Demosthenes." "So far as that goes, Jack," replied Fritz, "you would possess a like advantage for the profession as myself; but I will take time to reflect."
Wolston, Becker, Mary, and Fritz, started on foot in the direction of the coast. They had not gone far before Becker observed a large broadside plastered on a tree. "What is that?" he inquired. Nobody could give a satisfactory reply. "Perhaps," suggested Mrs. Wolston, "paper grows ready made on the trees of this wonderful country."
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