Wood dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion, essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. The leg and wing of a duck were disposed of by this gentleman in a twinkling; a brace of pigeons and a pound of steak followed with equal celerity; and he had just begun to make a fierce assault upon the eggs and ham. So, in broken, rather breathless phrases, he told his story; and when he had done, he laid his arms upon the table and bent his head to them. " "Give me the brandy, and I'll tell you," replied Wood. You would steal from me then the only man I ever cared a snap of the fingers about. ‘I don’t want a list of all the nuns resident in your wretched convent. " Blueskin, meanwhile, having drained and replenished his glass, commenced chaunting a snatch of a ballad:— Once on a time, as I've heard tell. A nurse came hurrying up. 87 “They’re amazing. " "And who is its mother?" asked Jonathan, in an eager whisper. "My sight is failing me. And life is much the same, whether taken in battle, on the couch, or by the road-side. ” They entered the place, a pleasant little café of the sort to be met with in the outlying parts of Paris. It did seem germane to the matter that so many of the people “in the van” were plain people, or faded people, or tired-looking people. Somewhere you may stumble upon a clew to his identity.
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