"Is Cecile, I think."
"Ah, to be suah, my deah wife's name, Cecilia, gallicized. She and Madame Du Plessis were Castilians of Lima. Du Plessis was theah in the ahmy, I in commehcial puhsuits, and we mahhied the sistahs, the belles of the Rimac.
Que' es la vida? Un frenesi
Que' es la vida? Una ilusion,
Una sombra, una ficcion.
You read Spanish, Mr. Wilkinson?"
"A little, sir; I think I recognize Calderon in these lines."
"Right, Mr. Wilkinson; I thank you, suh, foh yoah pleasing companionship. Good evening, gentlemen!" With a courtly bow, the colonel retired from the table.
At the coloured barber's the pedestrians met Mr. Maguffin, who greeted Coristine, saying:—
"Hopes yoh doan feel none the wuhse ob yoh ride on the po-ul," adding: "Mistah Poley, what runs this yeah stablishment, he's my nuncle's oldes' boy, and he abstracks a cohnah ob the same ter my disposhul foh ohfice pupposes, supposin' I'm wahnted by folks as cahn't find me."