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There is no single figure as fine as Calchas Général Boum is a coarser outline but how humorous and how firm is the drawing of Prince Paul and Baron Grog! And Her Highness herself may be thought a cleverer sketch of youthful femininity than even the Hellenic Helen. It is hard to judge the play now. Custom has worn its freshness and made it too familiar: we know it too well to criticise it clearly.
"Monsieur," said Boucard, "will you have the kindness to leave your name, so that M. Derville may know " "Chabert." "The Colonel who was killed at Eylau?" asked Hure, who, having so far said nothing, was jealous of adding a jest to all the others. "The same, monsieur," replied the good man, with antique simplicity. And he went away. "Whew!" "Done brown!" "Poof!" "Oh!" "Ah!" "Boum!"
Louis, when her song attracted an ear in a second-story room under whose window she was passing. As usual, it was fitted to the passing event: "Apportez moi mo' sabre, Ba boum, ba boum, boum, boum." "Run, fetch that girl here," said Dr. Keene to the slave woman who had just entered his room with a pitcher of water. "Well, old eavesdropper," he said, as Clemence came, "what is the scandal to-day?"
"Those were Frenchman words," said Moise. "Parle Pas means 'no speak. He's a quiet rapeed. S'pose you'll ron on the river there, an' smoke a pipe, an' talk, an' not think of nothing. All at once, Boum! You'll been in those rapeed, an' he'll not said a word to you!" "Well," said Rob, "the traders used to run them somehow, didn't they?"
He had been shaking the rattle gently for fear it might be heard outside the church; but now, anxious to bring this dreadful task to an end, he began to shake it with all his might in one last challenge to the strange spirit. Bim! Bam! Boum! BOUM! Bim! Catanaugh jumped like a deer that hears the crackle of a twig behind it.
A woman with gray hair said to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated the cannon, and went boum! boum!" A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so we were told. The orchard is terrible.
What a magnificent plaything it was, and how well calculated to excite their imagination! It was immediately transformed in their minds into a frightfully large and ferocious bear, which they chased through the apartment, lying in wait for it behind armchairs, striking at it with sticks, and puffing out their little cheeks with all their might to say "Boum!" imitating the report of a gun.
Jimmie's voice came, rounded and giggling, "Oh, Mademoiselle! j'ai une potato, pardong, pum de terre, je mean." She poked three fingers through the toe of her stocking. "Veux dire, veux dire Qu'est-ce-que vous me racontez la?" scolded Mademoiselle. Miriam envied her air of authority. "Ah-ho! La-la Boum Bong!" came Gertrude's great voice from the door.
He quotes an old prophecy, attributed to Merlin, and with a sort of wonder, as if recollecting that England owed so much of its literary learning to that country; and the prophecy says that after long years Oxford will pass into Ireland 'Vada boum suo tempore transibunt in Hiberniam. When I read this, I could not but indulge the pleasant fancy that in the days when the Dublin University shall arise in material splendour, an allusion to this prophecy might form a poetic element in the inscription on the pedestal of the statue which commemorates its first Rector.
This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a drunken man. Here a cannon would make a boum, and the thunder would make a pouf. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, and it is better so.
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