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Updated: August 25, 2024
But Grim was not the man to spoil success by lingering in what might yet turn into a trap. He who sups with the devil should not sit long at the feast; and I warned you this was a story without an end to it. There is the lady Ayisha, and what became of her, and the account of when and in what way the Lion kept his bargain.
And Naisi ordered Ardan to go to meet Fergus. Then Deirdre declared she knew the first call sent forth by Fergus. "'Why didst thou conceal it, then, my Queen? says Naisi. "'A vision I saw last night, says Deirdre, 'namely that three birds came unto us having three sups of honey in their beaks, and that they left them with us, and that they took three sups of our blood with them.
In the private rooms of restaurants, where one sups after midnight by the light of wax candles, laughed the motley crowd of men of letters and actresses. They were prodigal as kings, full of ideal, ambitious, fantastic frenzy. This was an existence outside that of all others, between heaven and earth, in the midst of storms, having something of the sublime.
"I confess I am curious to know how the thing happened, but the hand of the Almighty's in it anyway," he said; and so saying he lay back in his chair with a sigh of satisfaction that lost nothing of its zest by the influence of the rain that blattered now in drumming violence on the window-panes. John Splendid, at the table-end, laughed shortly between his sups at a flagon of wine.
The only relaxation he permits himself, is to read Thucydides in the holidays. Everybody asks him out to dinner, on account of his brass-buttons with the Queen's cipher, and to have the air of being well with the Foreign Office. "Where I dine," he says solemnly, "I think it is my duty to go to evening-parties." That is why he is here. He never dances, never sups, never drinks.
The feast of the Redeemer the great popular feast of the year is a wonderful Venetian Vauxhall. All Venice on this occasion takes to the boats for the night and loads them with lamps and provisions. Wedged together in a mass it sups and sings; every boat is a floating arbour, a private <i>cafe-concert</i>. Of all Christian commemorations it is the most ingenuously and harmlessly pagan.
Levi, how still and peaceful they are when their time comes to grub. 'The still sow sups the kail, as we used to say in the north; the English turn the proverb differently, they say 'The silent hog " "Jabber! jabber! jabber! aie! aie!" "Hallo! there's a scrimmage! and there go all the fools rushing to see it. I'll go, too!" Alas! poor human nature; the row was this.
All the afternoon the "mob" people and the other "sups" besieged the stage door of the theatre waiting their turns to be made up, and then, donning heavy veils hurried back up the hill. It was tiresome being made up so early and having to stay indoors all the hot afternoon, but it couldn't be helped, for there was only one make-up man and he must save plenty of time for the principal actors.
I knew well that if I had tried to bribe him he would have scouted me, or if I had made a motion for escape he would have shot me off-hand. But a lady that appealed to him; and that she was the Seigneur Duvarney's daughter did the rest. "Yes, yes," said I, "one must be well appointed in soul and body when one sups with his Excellency and Monsieur Doltaire."
On the whole the expense at Ranelagh is nothing near so great as it is at Vauxhall, if you consider the refreshments; for any one who sups at Vauxhall, which most people do, is likely, for a very moderate supper, to pay at least half-a-guinea. The Parliament. I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance.
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