Bohemian Days

heer, nine times repeated, with the celebrated "tiger" of the Texan Rangers, as it had been reported to them. Mr. Simp rea

ent; we have an aphorism, relative to the last feather, in the English tongue. But lend me one hu

you-can take the telegram to our several creditors, and rai

Simp a hundred francs; he ordered cigars and a gallon of punch, and

were alive to enjoy himself; and Simp said, "Bigad, s

is feature," said Andy Plade, "it would have been well to invite Ambassador Slidell." But Pisgah and Simp, who had applied to Slidell several times by

gah, and Freckle thought Hugenot a villain. He had not even attended the obsequies of the lamented Lee

de partook; the "Bonnie Blue Flag" was sung with great spirit, and Freckle became so intoxicate

bts. The tailors, shoemakers, tobacconists, publicans, grocers and hosiers met in squads upon corners to talk it over; all the g

e restaurant in Paris was pleasantly adorned f

t Davis. A crayon drawing of the C. S. N. V. Florida, from the portfolio of the amateur Mr. Simp, was arched by two crossed cutlasses, hired for the occasion;

the Southern Colony and convoy made their appearance upon the threshold. With the exception of Pisgah and Hugenot, all were clothed in the relics of their poverty, but their hai

ifted them with bright silver fourchettes from plates of Sevres porcelain, and each guest touched his lips afterward with a glass of refined vermeuth. Three descriptions of soup came successively, an amber Julien, in which the microscope would have been baffled to de

nest vintages of Burgundy; and the luscious patés de foie gras-for which the plumpest geese in Bretagne had been invalids all their days, and, if gossip be t

this dish came confections and fruits ad libitum, ending with the removal of t

he lines of lamps, shining down the long arcades; the glitter of jewelry and precious merchandise in the marvellous boutiques; the groups which sat around the café beneath with sorbets and glacés, and sparkling wines; the old women in Normandie caps an

hange a memory and a sentiment, and Hugenot had joined them with his most recent mistress; for the latter

e Montorgueil. But Mr. Freckle, being again emboldened by wine, and affronted at the subordinate position assigned him, repeatedly cried that,

to give unconscious assent to something, but immediately relapsed to the worship of his nepenthe; and, as the long potations sent strong fumes to his temples, he chuckled audibly, and ga

ght. Few knew how many weary hours she labored for them in the floating houses upon the Seine. But she is in love with Pisgah, and is quite oblivious of the gener

ut her, and drains his absinthe, and sometimes, as if to reassure the company, shouts wildly at the wrong places: "'At's so, boys!" "Hoorah for you!" "Ay! capital, gen'l'men, c

k at the window, and Andy Plade, who had been borrowing small sums from ever

eckle, looking very atten

gy and enterprise have been useful both to his own fortunes and to the South-one who is a friend of yours, and more than a dear friend to me. We cam

ry and the Colony-

cried Pisgah, look

r. Hugenot, rising, as it appeared from a bandbox, carefully surveyed

ather as your host tha

ht"-from Freckle-"it

st, Frenchmen by adoption. That ancestry whose deeds will live when the present poor re

" from Freckle, and di

nd you in Paris a month ago, poor and dejected. You are here to-night,

earnestly,

atic hands. The cavalier cannot be a mudsill! You are not like the lilies of the field;

ng, doubt, and

e roulette ball,

nd unparalle

as upon you. It had indebtedness, as you have had. Shall I say that you, like the South, repudiated? No! that is a slander of our adversaries. But the parallel holds good in that we found

lemen, capital

uld fight the Yankee, but we would not work. You would fight the bank, but you would not slave; and as you have won at Wis

ry and the Colony-

inner by sending up the bill. Pisgah and the blanchisseuse were embracing in a spirited way, and Simp was holding back

e dispatched immediately by the waiter, whom you see upon my right h

thodical men alive; but the results prove they

enthusiasm had subsided, "that I place the toast in this

is face, and splattered, dirty, and travel-worn, Auburn

gered and pale-faced; "you were no

about the door, and held to each other t

ers, till his pock-marked face grew white as leprosy, and every s

s, inflectionless; "how could one break the bank

er than a voice, and reeling as if a galvanic

f it, hopeful of better luck, and lost again. Then I had not enough money to get home, and for forty kilometres of the way I ha

seven thousand on

rancs; but, enlarging my stakes with my c

g up through red eyes which throbbed like pulses. "Wh

, at bay; "it must have been my manner of play. I th

e may not accuse, we may not be enraged-we are nothing now

, "Good God, is it that gammon-head, Hugenot, who has ruined us? Fetch him out from hi

were lying by Lees in the fosse commune. But I w

st, as desperately,

ued. It is at any rate time for the salon to be closed. We will t

ndy Plade, "dinner for thirteen perso

not, overturning the blanchisseuse in

e and female, cleared the threshold and disappeared, headed by Andy Plade, who kept all the subscriptions