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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Adventures of a Modest Man - -Author: Robert W. Chambers - -Illustrator: Edmund Frederick - -Release Date: September 12, 2013 [EBook #43702] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF A MODEST MAN *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire. This book was produced from -scanned images of public domain material from the Google -Print archive. - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43702 ***</div> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;"> <img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="383" height="600" alt="" /> @@ -259,7 +220,7 @@ Print archive. <h3><span class="smcap">Mr. and Mrs. C. Wheaton Vaughan</span></h3> <p> -<span style="margin-left: 29em;">This volume packed with bric-à-brac</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 29em;">This volume packed with bric-à -brac</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 30em;">I offer you with my affection,—</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 29em;">The story halts, the rhymes are slack—</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 30em;">Poor stuff to add to your collection.</span><br /> @@ -273,7 +234,7 @@ Print archive. <span style="margin-left: 23em;">Yet soft!—my memory recalls</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 23em;">Red labels pasted on the walls!</span><br /> <br /> -<span style="margin-left: 29em;">And so, perhaps, <i>my</i> bric-à-brac</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 29em;">And so, perhaps, <i>my</i> bric-à -brac</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 30em;">May pass the test of your inspection;</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 29em;">Perhaps you will not send it back,</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 30em;">But place it—if you've no objection—</span><br /> @@ -585,11 +546,11 @@ does happen to your pig?" he asked.</p> <p>"Van," I said, "if anybody can get that pig away from me, I'll do anything you suggest for the next six months."</p> -<p>"<i>À nous deux, alors!</i>" he said. He speaks French too fast for me to +<p>"<i>À nous deux, alors!</i>" he said. He speaks French too fast for me to translate. It's a foolish way to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> talk a foreign language. But he has never yet been able to put it over me.</p> -<p>"<i>À la guerre comme à la guerre</i>," I replied carelessly. It's a phrase +<p>"<i>À la guerre comme à la guerre</i>," I replied carelessly. It's a phrase one can use in reply to any remark that was ever uttered in French. I use it constantly.</p> @@ -788,11 +749,11 @@ where hundreds of handkerchiefs flutter in the breeze.</p> when to use its idioms." They both looked a little blank, but continued to wave their handkerchiefs.</p> -<p>"<i>À bien-tôt!</i>" called Alida softly, as the towering black sides of the +<p>"<i>À bien-tôt!</i>" called Alida softly, as the towering black sides of the steamer slipped along the wooden wharf.</p> -<p>Van Dieman raised his hat on the pier below, and answered: "<i>À bien-tôt? -C'est la mort, jusqu'à bien-tôt! Donc, vîve la vie, Mademoiselle!</i>"</p> +<p>Van Dieman raised his hat on the pier below, and answered: "<i>À bien-tôt? +C'est la mort, jusqu'à bien-tôt! Donc, vîve la vie, Mademoiselle!</i>"</p> <p>"There is no necessity in chattering like a Frenchman when you talk French," I observed to Alida. "Could you make out what Van Dieman said @@ -878,7 +839,7 @@ say so."</p> <p>"Hasn't it, Williams?" I asked wistfully.</p> -<p>"No. The old café is exactly the same. The Luxembourg Quarter will seem +<p>"No. The old café is exactly the same. The Luxembourg Quarter will seem familiar to you——"</p> <p>"I'm not going there," I said hastily.</p> @@ -1760,7 +1721,7 @@ So I kept clear of Williams until we arrived in Paris.</p> <p>"What was your first impression of Paris, Mr. Van Twiller?" inquired the young man from East Boston, as I was lighting my cigar in the corridor -of the Hôtel des Michetons after breakfast.</p> +of the Hôtel des Michetons after breakfast.</p> <p>"The first thing I noticed," said I, "was the entire United States walking down the Boulevard des Italiens."</p> @@ -1861,7 +1822,7 @@ Concorde—the finest square in the world.</p> <p>The sun glittered on the brass inlaid base on which towered the monolyth. The splashing of the great fountains filled the air with a fresh sweet sound. Round us, in a vast circle, sat the "Cities of -France,"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> with "Strasburg" smothered in crêpe and funeral wreaths, each +France,"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> with "Strasburg" smothered in crêpe and funeral wreaths, each still stone figure crowned with battlemented crowns and bearing the carved symbols of their ancient power on time-indented escutcheons, all of stone.</p> @@ -1877,7 +1838,7 @@ springtime, twined in her chaplet of tender green.</p> Paris this spring, and that she would like to know how soon we were going to the dressmakers.</p> -<p>Now at last we were rolling up the Champs Elysées, with the Arc de +<p>Now at last we were rolling up the Champs Elysées, with the Arc de Triomphe, a bridge of pearl at the end of the finest vista in the world. Past us galloped gay cavalry officers, out for a morning canter in the Bois de Boulogne; past us whizzed automobiles of every hue, shape and @@ -1888,7 +1849,7 @@ countrymen, yet a truly Parisian crowd for all that. Hundreds of uniforms dotted the throngs; cuirassiers in short blue stable jackets, sabres hooked under their left elbows, little <i>piou-piou</i> lads, in baggy red trousers and shakos bound<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> with yellow; hussars jingling along, -wearing jackets of robin's-egg blue faced with white; chasseurs à +wearing jackets of robin's-egg blue faced with white; chasseurs à Cheval, wearing turquoise blue braided with black; then came the priests in black, well groomed as jackdaws in April; policemen in sombre uniforms, wearing sword bayonets; gendarmes off duty—for the Republican @@ -1926,15 +1887,15 @@ and sole!</p> <p>We left our taxi and mounted to the top of the Arc de Triomphe. The world around us was bathed in a delicate haze; silver-gray and emerald -the view stretched on every side from the great Basilica on Montmârtre +the view stretched on every side from the great Basilica on Montmârtre to the silent Fortress of Mont-Valerien; from the vast dome of the Pantheon, springing up like a silver bubble in the sky, to the dull -golden dome of the Invalides, and the dome of the Val-de-Grâce.</p> +golden dome of the Invalides, and the dome of the Val-de-Grâce.</p> <p>Spite of the Sainte Chapel, with its gilded lace-work, spite of the bizarre Tour Saint-Jacques, spite of the lean monster raised by Monsieur Eiffel, straddling the vase Esplanade in the west, the solid twin towers -of Nôtre-Dame dominated the spreading city by their sheer +of Nôtre-Dame dominated the spreading city by their sheer majesty—dominated Saint-Sulpice, dominated the Trocadero, dominated even the Pantheon.</p> @@ -1964,16 +1925,16 @@ dormant or is drowned in solitary cocktails at a solemn club.</p> could not be the worse for a man who has not sufficient intelligence to take care of his own pig.</p> -<p>"There is," said Dulcima, referring to her guidebook, "a café near here -in the Bois de Boulogne,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> called the Café des Fleurs de Chine. I should -so love to breakfast at a Chinese café."</p> +<p>"There is," said Dulcima, referring to her guidebook, "a café near here +in the Bois de Boulogne,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> called the Café des Fleurs de Chine. I should +so love to breakfast at a Chinese café."</p> <p>"With chopsticks!" added Alida, soulfully clasping her gloved hands.</p> -<p>"Your Café Chinois is doubtless a rendezvous for Apaches," I said, "but +<p>"Your Café Chinois is doubtless a rendezvous for Apaches," I said, "but we'll try it if you wish."</p> -<p>I am wondering, now, just what sort of a place that café is, set like a +<p>I am wondering, now, just what sort of a place that café is, set like a jewel among the green trees of the Bois. I know it is expensive, but not very expensive; I know, also, that the dainty young persons who sipped mint on the terrace appeared to disregard certain conventionalities @@ -2281,7 +2242,7 @@ foliation—perhaps some soft miracle of ancient Eastern weaving on the floor, perhaps a mysterious marble shape veiled in ruddy shadow—enough to set her youthful imagination on fire, enough to check her breath and start the pulses racing as she turned the key in her own door and -reëntered the white dusk of her own life once more.</p> +reëntered the white dusk of her own life once more.</p> <p>The three most important events of her brief career had occurred within the twelvemonth—her mother's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> death, her coming here to live—and love. @@ -2380,7 +2341,7 @@ children,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> a little while, she crossed the street and went in among them.</p> <p>The splash of the fountain was refreshing. She wandered at random, past -the illuminated façade of the Lying-in Hospital, past the painted +the illuminated façade of the Lying-in Hospital, past the painted Virgin, then crossed Second Avenue, entered the gates again, and turned aimlessly by the second fountain. There seemed to be no resting-place for her on the crowded benches.</p> @@ -2797,7 +2758,7 @@ arms and shapely feet.</p> <p>For a little while they talked together. The woman surprised, smiling sometimes, but always very gentle; the girl flushed, stammering, -distressed in forming her naïve questions.</p> +distressed in forming her naïve questions.</p> <p>Yes, it could be done; it had been done. But it was a long process; it must be executed in sections, then set together limb by limb, for there @@ -2898,7 +2859,7 @@ projooce the letter, Miss."</p> <p>She took it; a shiver passed over her.</p> -<p>When the old man had shambled off down the passage she reëntered her +<p>When the old man had shambled off down the passage she reëntered her room, held the envelope a moment close under the lighted lamp, then nervously tore it wide.</p> @@ -3011,7 +2972,7 @@ for another story."</p> <h3>THE BITER, THE BITTEN, AND THE UN-BITTEN</h3> -<p>"Mais tout le monde," began the chasseur of the Hôtel des +<p>"Mais tout le monde," began the chasseur of the Hôtel des Michetons—"mais, monsieur, tout le grand monde——"</p> <p>"Exactly," said I, complacently. "Le grand monde means the great world; @@ -3019,7 +2980,7 @@ and," I added, "the world is a planet of no unusual magnitude, inhabited by bipeds whose entire existence is passed in attempting to get something for nothing."</p> -<p>The chasseur of the Hôtel des Michetons bowed, doubtfully.</p> +<p>The chasseur of the Hôtel des Michetons bowed, doubtfully.</p> <p>"You request me," I continued, "not to forget you when I go away. Why should I not forget you?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> Are you historical, are you antique, are you @@ -3042,7 +3003,7 @@ their precise value may be you can only determine when, on returning to New York, you hear a gripman curse a woman for crossing the sacred tracks of the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company. So, with my daughter Dulcima and my daughter Alida, and with a wagon-load of baggage, I left -the gorgeously gilded Hôtel des Michetons—for these three reasons:</p> +the gorgeously gilded Hôtel des Michetons—for these three reasons:</p> <p>Number one: it was full of Americans.</p> @@ -3054,21 +3015,21 @@ somewhere in Paris there existed French newspapers, French people, and French<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> speech. I meant to discover them or write and complain to the <i>Outlook</i>.</p> -<p>The new hotel I had selected was called the Hôtel de l'Univers. I had +<p>The new hotel I had selected was called the Hôtel de l'Univers. I had noticed it while wandering out of the Luxembourg Gardens. It appeared to be a well situated, modest, clean hotel, and not only thoroughly -respectable—which the great gilded Hôtel des Michetons was not—but +respectable—which the great gilded Hôtel des Michetons was not—but also typically and thoroughly French. So I took an apartment on the first floor and laid my plans to dine out every evening with my daughters.</p> -<p>They were naturally not favourably impressed with the Hôtel de +<p>They were naturally not favourably impressed with the Hôtel de l'Univers, but I insisted on trying it for a week, desiring that my daughters should have at least a brief experience in a typical French hotel.</p> <p>On the third day of our stay my daughters asked me why the guests at the -Hôtel de l'Univers all appeared to be afflicted in one way or another. I +Hôtel de l'Univers all appeared to be afflicted in one way or another. I myself had noticed that many of the guests wore court-plaster on hands and faces, and some even had their hands bandaged in slings.</p> @@ -3079,7 +3040,7 @@ subject from my mind. The hotel<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_ respectable. Titled names were not wanting among the guests, and the perfect courtesy of the proprietor, his servants, and of the guests was most refreshing after the carelessness and bad manners of the crowds at -the Hôtel des Michetons.</p> +the Hôtel des Michetons.</p> <p>"Can it be possible?" said Alida, as we three strolled out of our hotel into the Boulevard St. Michel.</p> @@ -3141,7 +3102,7 @@ showing us the beauties of the Rive Gauche.</p> intelligently—the New Sorbonne, with its magnificent mural decorations by Puvis de Chavannes; we saw the great white-domed Observatory, piled up in the sky like an Eastern temple, and the beautiful old palace of -the Luxembourg. Also, we beheld the Republican Guards, <i>à cheval</i>, +the Luxembourg. Also, we beheld the Republican Guards, <i>à cheval</i>, marching out of their barracks on the Rue de Tournon; and a splendid glittering company of cavalry they were, with their silver helmets, orange-red facings, white gauntlets, and high, polished boots—the @@ -3151,7 +3112,7 @@ picked men of all the French forces, as far as physique is concerned.</p> Latin Quarter, turned to purest cobalt in the sky. Under its majestic shadow<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> the Boulevard St. Michel ran all green and gold with gas-jets already lighted in lamps and restaurants and the scores of students' -cafés which line the main artery of the "Quartier Latin."</p> +cafés which line the main artery of the "Quartier Latin."</p> <p>"I wish," said Alida, "that it were perfectly proper for us to walk along those terraces."</p> @@ -3165,11 +3126,11 @@ blond moustache; "however—if monsieur wishes——?"</p> <p>So, with my daughters in the centre, and Captain de Barsac and myself thrown out in strong flanking parties, we began our march.</p> -<p>The famous cafés of the Latin Quarter were all ablaze with electricity +<p>The famous cafés of the Latin Quarter were all ablaze with electricity and gas and colored incandescent globes. On the terraces hundreds of tables and chairs stood, occupied by students in every imaginable civilian costume, although the straight-brimmed stovepipe and the -<i>béret</i> appeared to be the favorite headgear. At least a third of the +<i>béret</i> appeared to be the favorite headgear. At least a third of the throng was made up of military students from the Polytechnic, from Fontainebleau, and from Saint-Cyr. Set in the crowded terraces like bunches of blossoms were chattering groups of girls—bright-eyed, @@ -3179,18 +3140,18 @@ exotic birds. To and fro sped the bald-headed, white-aproned waiters, balancing trays full of glasses brimming with red and blue and amber liquids.</p> -<p>Here was the Café d'Harcourt, all a-glitter, with music playing +<p>Here was the Café d'Harcourt, all a-glitter, with music playing somewhere inside—the favorite resort of the medical students from the -Sorbonne, according to Captain de Barsac. Here was the Café de la +Sorbonne, according to Captain de Barsac. Here was the Café de la Source, with its cascade of falling water and its miniature mill-wheel -turning under a crimson glow of light; here was the famous Café +turning under a crimson glow of light; here was the famous Café Vachette, celebrated as the centre of all Latin Quarter mischief; and, -opposite to it, blazed the lights of the "<span class="smcap">Café des Bleaus</span>," so called +opposite to it, blazed the lights of the "<span class="smcap">Café des Bleaus</span>," so called because haunted almost exclusively by artillery officers from the great school of Fontainebleau.</p> <p>Up the boulevard and down the boulevard moved the big double-decked -tram-cars, horns sounding incessantly; cabs dashed up to the cafés, +tram-cars, horns sounding incessantly; cabs dashed up to the cafés, deposited their loads of students or pretty women, then darted away toward the river, their lamps shining like stars.</p> @@ -3226,7 +3187,7 @@ to our children through the courtesy of our New York theatre managers.</p> <p>Slowly we turned to retrace our steps, strolling up the boulevard through the fragrant May evening, until we came to the gilded railing which encircles the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span> Luxembourg Gardens from the School of Mines to the -Palais-du-Sénat.</p> +Palais-du-Sénat.</p> <p>Here Captain De Barsac took leave of us with all the delightful and engaging courtesy of a well-bred Frenchman; and he seemed to be grateful @@ -3236,11 +3197,11 @@ familiar to him as his own barracks.</p> <p>I could do no less than ask him to call on us, though his devotion to Dulcima both on shipboard and here made me a trifle wary.</p> -<p>"We are stopping," said I, "at the Hôtel de l'Univers——"</p> +<p>"We are stopping," said I, "at the Hôtel de l'Univers——"</p> <p>He started and gazed at me so earnestly that I asked him why he did so.</p> -<p>"The—the Hôtel de l'Univers?" he repeated, looking from me to Dulcima +<p>"The—the Hôtel de l'Univers?" he repeated, looking from me to Dulcima and from Dulcima to Alida.</p> <p>"Is it not respectable?" I demanded, somewhat alarmed.</p> @@ -3298,7 +3259,7 @@ students grinned in sympathy and a cloaked policeman on the corner smiled discreetly and rubbed his chin.</p> <p>That evening, after my progeny were safely asleep, casting a furtive -glance around me I slunk off to my old café—the Café Jaune. I hadn't +glance around me I slunk off to my old café—the Café Jaune. I hadn't been there in over twenty years; I passed among crowded tables, skulked through the entrance, and slid into my old corner as though I had never missed an evening there.</p> @@ -3546,7 +3507,7 @@ him.</p> <p>The train was slowing down; sundry hoarse toots from the locomotive indicated a station somewhere in the vicinity.</p> -<p>"Plue Pirt Lake! Change heraus für Bleasant Falley!" shouted the +<p>"Plue Pirt Lake! Change heraus für Bleasant Falley!" shouted the conductor, opening the forward door. He lingered long enough to glare balefully at Seabury, then, as nobody apparently cared either to get out at Blue Bird Lake or change for Pleasant Valley, he slammed the door and @@ -3915,7 +3876,7 @@ light—different in this way that his credentials were now unquestionable, and she could be as mischievous as she pleased with the minimum of imprudence.</p> -<p>"Do you ever take the advice of physicians," he asked naïvely, "about +<p>"Do you ever take the advice of physicians," he asked naïvely, "about repeating names?"</p> <p>"Seldom," she said. "I don't require the treatment."</p> @@ -4059,7 +4020,7 @@ spinning away along a splendid wooded avenue and then straight up toward a great house, every window ablaze with light.</p> <p>John Seabury jumped out and offered his aid to Cecil Gay as several -servants appeared under the porte-cochère.</p> +servants appeared under the porte-cochère.</p> <p>"I had no idea that Jack Austin lived so splendidly," he whispered to Miss Gay, as they entered the big hall.</p> @@ -4692,8 +4653,8 @@ added Williams throwing away his cigar.</p> <p>"In my opinion," said I, "a man who comes to see Paris in three months is a fool, and kin to that celebrated ass who circum-perambulated the globe in eighty days. See all, see nothing. A man might camp a lifetime in the -Louvre and learn little about it before he left for Père Lachaise. Yet -here comes the United States in a gigantic "<i>mônome</i>" to see the city in +Louvre and learn little about it before he left for Père Lachaise. Yet +here comes the United States in a gigantic "<i>mônome</i>" to see the city in three weeks, when three years is too short a time in which to appreciate the Carnavalet Museum alone! I'm going home."</p> @@ -4724,7 +4685,7 @@ luncheon."</p> <p>My sarcasm was lost on my daughters because they had moved out of earshot. Alida was looking through a telescope held for her by a friend -of Captain<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> de Barsac, an officer of artillery named Captain Vicômte +of Captain<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> de Barsac, an officer of artillery named Captain Vicômte Torchon de Cluny. He was all over scarlet and black and gold; when he walked his sabre made noises, and his ringing spurs reminded me of the sound of sleigh-bells in Oyster Bay.</p> @@ -4749,7 +4710,7 @@ out—and cannot. Will you take my word for it that there are one or two cannon there—and permit me to avoid particulars?"</p> <p>"You might tell me where just one little unimportant cannon is?" said my -daughter, with the naïve curiosity which amuses the opposite and still +daughter, with the naïve curiosity which amuses the opposite and still more curious sex.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span></p> @@ -4818,7 +4779,7 @@ reminds me——"</p> <p>I turned around to find I had been addressing the empty and somewhat humid atmosphere. My daughter Alida stood some distance away, gazing -absently at a tank full of small fry; and Captain Vicômte Torchon de +absently at a tank full of small fry; and Captain Vicômte Torchon de Cluny stood beside her, talking. Perhaps he was explaining the habits of the fish in the tank.</p> @@ -4935,9 +4896,9 @@ and drive it myself, and hunt up that cabman who ran over me, by Judas!"</p> <hr class="tb" /> -<p>That night I met Williams at the Café Jaune by previous and crafty +<p>That night I met Williams at the Café Jaune by previous and crafty agreement; and it certainly was nice to be together after all these -years in the same old seats in the same café, and discuss the days that +years in the same old seats in the same café, and discuss the days that we never could live again—and wouldn't want to if we could—alas!</p> <p>The talk fell on Ellis and Jones, and immediately I perceived that @@ -5234,7 +5195,7 @@ a New Yorker, are you not?"</p> enough to the Park to see it. It's green, and I like it. Besides, there are geraniums and other posies in my back yard, and I can see them when the laundress isn't too busy with the clothes-line. So much for the -<i>mise en scène</i>; me in a twenty-by-one-hundred house, perfectly +<i>mise en scène</i>; me in a twenty-by-one-hundred house, perfectly contented; Park a stone's toss west, back yard a few feet north. My habits? Simple enough to draw tears from a lambkin! I breakfast at nine—an egg, fruit, coffee and—I hate to admit it—the <i>Sun</i>. At @@ -5779,7 +5740,7 @@ trout are habituated to the roar of the fork falls. We may need every fish we can get if the flood proves a bad one."</p> <p>Jones said it would suit him perfectly to sit still. He curled up close -enough to the fire for comfort as well as æsthetic pleasure, removed his +enough to the fire for comfort as well as æsthetic pleasure, removed his eyeglasses, fished out a flask of aromatic mosquito ointment, and solemnly began a facial toilet, in the manner of a comfortable house cat anointing her countenance with one paw.</p> @@ -5908,7 +5869,7 @@ thing into the flooded forest.</p> emotions, Jones was ashamed of him.</p> <p>"No, you don't hurt me, Mr. Ellis; I'm all right inside here, but -I—I—you must not pull this papier-mâché dragon to pieces——"</p> +I—I—you must not pull this papier-mâché dragon to pieces——"</p> <p>"What do I care for the dragon if you are in danger?" cried Ellis, excitedly.</p> @@ -5961,7 +5922,7 @@ aboard, but the paddle broke and they were adrift. Then one of those horrid swans got loose, and everybody screamed, and the water rose higher and higher, and nobody helped anybody, so, so—as I swim well, I jumped in without waiting to undress—you see I had been acting the -dragon, Fafnir, and I went in just as I was; but the papier-mâché dragon +dragon, Fafnir, and I went in just as I was; but the papier-mâché dragon kept turning<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span> turtle with me, and first I knew I was being spun around like a top."</p> @@ -7462,7 +7423,7 @@ to his; in silence, still looking at one another, they drank the toast.</p> <p>My daughter Alida and my daughter Dulcima had gone to drive with the United States Ambassador and his daughter that morning, leaving me at -the Hôtel with instructions as to my behaviour in their absence, and +the Hôtel with instructions as to my behaviour in their absence, and injunctions not to let myself be run over by any cab, omnibus, automobile, or bicycle whatever.</p> @@ -7493,7 +7454,7 @@ scenery was similar.</p> <p>"The fishing must be good here," I observed to an aged man, leaning on the quay-wall beside me.</p> -<p>"<i>Comme ça</i>," he said.</p> +<p>"<i>Comme ça</i>," he said.</p> <p>I leaned there lazily, waiting to see the first fish caught. I am an angler myself, and understand patience; but when I had waited an hour by @@ -7587,7 +7548,7 @@ on past the Champ de Mars; past the ugly sprawling Eiffel Tower, past the twin towers of the Trocadero, and out under the huge stone viaduct of the Point du Jour.</p> -<p>Here the banks of the river were green and inviting.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span> Cafés, pretty +<p>Here the banks of the river were green and inviting.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span> Cafés, pretty suburban dance-houses, restaurants, and tiny hotels lined the shores. I read on the signs such names as "The Angler's Retreat," "At the Great Gudgeon," "The Fisherman's Paradise," and I saw sign-boards advertising @@ -7666,7 +7627,7 @@ utterly unknown to me, I deliberately walked out of the house alone in defiance of my tutor and my aunt, and wandered all day long through unknown squares and parks and streets intoxicated with my own freedom. And I remember, that day—which was the twin of this—sitting on the -terrace of a tiny café in the Latin Quarter, I drifted into idle +terrace of a tiny café in the Latin Quarter, I drifted into idle conversation with a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span> demure little maid who was sipping a red syrup out of a tall thin glass.</p> @@ -7731,7 +7692,7 @@ Jones and the Dryad.</p> <p>The profession of Jones was derided by the world at large. He collected butterflies; and it may be imagined what the American public thought of him when they did not think he was demented. But a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span> large, -over-nourished and blasé millionaire, wearied of collecting pigeon-blood +over-nourished and blasé millionaire, wearied of collecting pigeon-blood rubies, first editions and Rembrandts, through sheer <i>ennui</i> one day commissioned Jones to gather for him the most magnificent and complete collection of American butterflies that could possibly be secured—not @@ -7844,7 +7805,7 @@ amends."</p> <p>"Give up golf—which I am perfectly mad about," repeated the Dryad, "just because you were horrid when I tried to help you."</p> -<p>"That will be delightful," said Jones, naïvely. "We will hunt Ajax +<p>"That will be delightful," said Jones, naïvely. "We will hunt Ajax together—all day, every day——"</p> <p>"Oh, I shall catch—something—the first time I try," observed the @@ -7908,7 +7869,7 @@ phantom never stops! Can nothing stop it?"</p> <p>Day after day, guarding the long, white road, the Dryad saw the phantom pass—always flying north; day after day in the dim forest, the hurrying, pale-winged, tireless creatures fled away, darting always -along some fixed yet invisible aërial path. Nothing lured them, neither +along some fixed yet invisible aërial path. Nothing lured them, neither the perfumed clusters of the China-berry, nor the white forest flowers; nothing checked them, neither the woven curtain of creepers across the forest barrier, nor the jungle walled with palms.</p> @@ -7993,7 +7954,7 @@ to catch the first far glimpse of Ajax in the wilderness.</p> <p>What was that distant flash of light? A dragon-fly sailing? There it is again! And there again! Nearer, nearer, following the same invisible -aërial path.</p> +aërial path.</p> <p>"Quick!" whispered the Dryad. A magnificent Ajax flashed across the glade, turned an acute angle in mid-air, and in an instant hung hovering @@ -8197,7 +8158,7 @@ more door. And that unlocks of itself."</p> <h3>IN A BELGIAN GARDEN</h3> -<p>That evening I found Williams curled up in his corner at the Café Jaune.</p> +<p>That evening I found Williams curled up in his corner at the Café Jaune.</p> <p>"You are sun-burned," he said, inspecting me.</p> @@ -8331,7 +8292,7 @@ reverently as though he were their father."</p> <p>Kingsbury retired to make his toilet; returned presently smelling less of the stables, seated himself,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[Pg 274]</a></span> drowned a dozen luscious strawberries in cream, tasted one, and cast a patronising eye upon the trout, which -had been prepared à la Meunière.</p> +had been prepared à la Meunière.</p> <p>"Corker, isn't he?" observed Smith, contemplating the fish with pardonable pride. "He's poached, I regret to inform you."</p> @@ -8380,7 +8341,7 @@ too."</p> <p>"Along the boundary wall on my side, if you want to know. A week ago I chanced to be out by moonlight, and I saw you kiss her, Smith, across -the top of the park wall. It is your proper rôle, of course, to deny it, +the top of the park wall. It is your proper rôle, of course, to deny it, but let me tell you that I think it's a pretty undignified business of yours, kissing the Countess of Semois's servants——"</p> @@ -8735,7 +8696,7 @@ perfect Belgian afternoon.</p> <p>"The beast has lunched without me," muttered Smith, yawning and looking at his watch. Then he got up, stretched, tinkled the bell, and when the -doll-faced maid arrived, requested an omelet à la Semois and a bottle of +doll-faced maid arrived, requested an omelet à la Semois and a bottle of claret.</p> <p>He got it in due time, absorbed it lazily, casting a weatherwise eye on @@ -8938,7 +8899,7 @@ Kingsbury.</p> <p>The sun glowed on her splendid red hair; she switched the slender rod about rather awkwardly, and every time the cast of flies became entangled in a nodding willow she set her red lips tight and with an -impatient "<i>Mais, c'est trop bête! Mais, c'est vraiment trop</i>——"</p> +impatient "<i>Mais, c'est trop bête! Mais, c'est vraiment trop</i>——"</p> <p>It was evident that she had not seen him where he lay on the wall; the chances were she would pass on—indeed her back was already toward @@ -8946,7 +8907,7 @@ him—when the unexpected happened: a trout leaped for a gnat and fell back into the pool with a resounding splash, sending ring on ring of sunny wavelets toward the shore.</p> -<p>"Ah! <i>Te voilà!</i>" she said aloud, swinging her line free for a cast.</p> +<p>"Ah! <i>Te voilà !</i>" she said aloud, swinging her line free for a cast.</p> <p>Smith saw what was coming and tried to dodge, but the silk line whistled on the back-cast, and the next moment his cap was snatched from his head @@ -9275,7 +9236,7 @@ impalpable weapons of romance.</p> haze along the stream—dusk, the accomplice of all the dim, jewelled forms that people the tinted shadows of romance. Why—if he had displeased her—did she not dismiss him? It is not with a question that -a woman gives a man his congé.</p> +a woman gives a man his congé.</p> <p>"Why do you speak as you do?" she asked, gravely. "Why, merely because you are clever, do you twist words into compliments. We are scarcely on @@ -9527,11 +9488,11 @@ Kingsbury was far too mad to speak.</p> <h3>THE ARMY OF PARIS</h3> <p>I was smoking peacefully in the conservatory of the hotel, when a -bellboy brought me the card of Captain le Vicômte de Cluny.</p> +bellboy brought me the card of Captain le Vicômte de Cluny.</p> <p>In due time Monsieur the Viscount himself appeared, elegant, graceful, smart; black and scarlet uniform glittering with triple-gold arabesques -on sleeve and Képi, spurs chiming with every step.</p> +on sleeve and Képi, spurs chiming with every step.</p> <p>We chatted amiably for a few moments; then the Captain, standing very erect and stiff, made me a beautiful bow and delivered the following @@ -9555,11 +9516,11 @@ me. After a silence I asked:</p> <p>We bowed to each other, solemnly shook hands, and parted.</p> <p>I was smoking restlessly in the conservatory of the hotel when a bellboy -brought me the card of Captain le Vicômte de Barsac.</p> +brought me the card of Captain le Vicômte de Barsac.</p> -<p>In due time the Vicômte himself appeared, elegant, graceful, smart; +<p>In due time the Vicômte himself appeared, elegant, graceful, smart; black, scarlet, and white uniform glittering with triple-gold arabesques -on sleeve and Képi, spurs chiming with every step.</p> +on sleeve and Képi, spurs chiming with every step.</p> <p>We chatted amiably for a few moments; then the Captain, standing very erect and stiff, made me a beautiful bow and delivered the following @@ -9688,7 +9649,7 @@ in the Bois de Boulogne.</p> <p>I bought a book on the quay, then re-entered the taxi and directed the driver to take us to the race-course at Longchamps.</p> -<p>Our way led up the Champs Elysées, and, while we whirled along, Van +<p>Our way led up the Champs Elysées, and, while we whirled along, Van Dieman very kindly told me as much about the French army as I now write, and for the accuracy of which I refer to my future son-in-law.</p> @@ -9708,13 +9669,13 @@ their own barracks; the marines, engineers, and artillery the same.</p> <p>At night the infantry and cavalry of the Republican Guard post sentinels at all theatres, balls, and public functions. In front of the Opera only are the cavalry mounted on their horses, except when public functions -occur at the Elysées or the Hôtel de Ville.</p> +occur at the Elysées or the Hôtel de Ville.</p> <p>In the dozen great fortresses that surround the walls of Paris, thousands of fortress artillery are stationed. In the suburbs and outlying villages artillery and regiments of heavy and light cavalry have their permanent barracks—dragoons, cuirassiers, -chasseurs-à-cheval, field batteries, and mounted batteries. At Saint +chasseurs-à -cheval, field batteries, and mounted batteries. At Saint Cloud are dragoons and remount troopers; at Versailles the engineers and cuirassiers rule the region; and the entire Department of the Seine is patrolled by gendarmes, mounted and on foot.</p> @@ -9766,7 +9727,7 @@ artillerymen as battery after battery passed, six guns abreast.</p> <p>In two long double ranks, ten thousand horsemen were galloping diagonally across the plain—Hussars in pale robin's-egg blue and black -and scarlet, Chasseurs-à-cheval in light blue and silver tunics, +and scarlet, Chasseurs-à -cheval in light blue and silver tunics, Dragoons armed with long lances from which fluttered a forest of red-and-white pennons, Cuirassiers cased in steel helmets and corselets—all coming at a gallop, sweeping on with the earth shaking @@ -9779,11 +9740,11 @@ benches to see.</p> <p>Then, with the sound of the rushing of an ocean, ten thousand swords swept from their steel scabbards, and a thundering cheer shook the very -sky: "<span class="smcap">Vive la Républic</span>!"</p> +sky: "<span class="smcap">Vive la Républic</span>!"</p> <hr class="tb" /> -<p>That evening we dined together at the Hôtel—Alida, Dulcima, Van Dieman, +<p>That evening we dined together at the Hôtel—Alida, Dulcima, Van Dieman, and I.</p> <p>Alida wore a new ring set with a brilliant that matched her shining, @@ -9791,11 +9752,11 @@ happy eyes. I hoped Van Dieman might appear foolish and ill at ease, but he did not.</p> <p>"There is," said he, "a certain rare brand of champagne in the secret -cellars of this famous café. It is pink as a rose in colour, and drier +cellars of this famous café. It is pink as a rose in colour, and drier than a British cigar. It is the only wine, except the Czar's Tokay, fit to drink to the happiness of the only perfect woman in the world."</p> -<p>"And her equally perfect sister, father and fiancé," said I. "So pray +<p>"And her equally perfect sister, father and fiancé," said I. "So pray order this wonderful wine, Van, and let me note the brand; for I very much fear that we shall need another bottle at no distant date."</p> @@ -9817,382 +9778,6 @@ least. Alida, my dear, your health, happiness, and long, long life!"</p> <img src="images/ill_060.jpg" width="300" height="84" alt="" /> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of a Modest Man, by -Robert W. Chambers - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF A MODEST MAN *** - -***** This file should be named 43702-h.htm or 43702-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/7/0/43702/ - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire. 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