“Tell 'em it's our only vice; we're models of propriety.”
Which possibly would not have been received with the belief desirable by the skeptics of Pall Mall.
So the De Profundis was said over Bertie Cecil; and “Beauty of the Brigades” ceased to be named in the service, and soon ceased to be even remembered. In the steeple-chase of life there is no time to look back at the failures, who have gone down over a “double and drop,” and fallen out of the pace.
CHAPTER XV.
“L'AMIE DU DRAPEAU.”
“Did I not say he would eat fire?”
“Pardieu! C'est un brave.”
“Rides like an Arab.”
“Smokes like a Zouave.”