Volume II Part 15 (1/2)
Next hout the day he proposed keeping open house, for the purpose of enabling us to behold whatever of beauty, rank, and fashi+on, Piers of note frooon, who doubtless would honor themselves with a call
As inmates of thethe final toilets of the Beguuests
Their four farthingales were placed standing in the ; when their future inmates, arrayed in rudi various articles of finery, dyed scarfs, ivory trinkets, and other decorations Upon the propriety of this or that adornether consulted They talked and they laughed; they were silent and sad; now ht of the charested the expediency of an artful fold in their draperies, by the liht to be pretty
But the old Begum was more active than any; by far the reat object seemed to be to pile on the finery at all hazards; and she pointed out hly susceptible of adorn a valedictory glance, at their intrenchum and daing from the sueneral reception that followed In came the Roes, the Fees, the Lol-Lols, the Hummee-Hums, the Bidi-Bidies, and the Dedidums; the Peenees, the Yamoyamees, the Karkies, the Fanfums, the Diddledees, and the Fiddlefies; in a word, all the aristocracy of Pily short na array of sounds; a circulation of ciphers; a ri the croas a bustling somebody, one Gaddi, arrayed inout Babbalanja, for some tihtened him as to the people assehty s of teeth included, he is said to weigh upwards of fourteen stone; and isbut slender in the region of the heart His riches are great And that old vrow is theRoo; very rich; plenty of teeth; but has none in her head
And _this_ is Finfi; said to be not very rich, and a ?”
And so saying, Gaddi sauntered off; his place by Babbalanja's side being immediately supplied by the damsel Finfi That vivacious and amiable nymph at once proceeded to point out the co with Gaddi himself, who, she insinuated, was a mere parvenu, a terrible infliction upon society, and not near so rich as he was iined to be
Soon ere accosted by one Nonno, a sour, saturnine personage ”I know nobody here; not a soul have I seen before; I wonder who they all are” And just then he was familiarly nodded to by nine worthies abreast Whereupon Nonno vanished But after going the rounds of the coain sauntered by Babbalanja, saying, ”nobody, nobody; nobody but nobodies; I see nobody I know”
Advancing, Ni their titles after a fashi+on, plainly signifying that he was bent upon convincing us, that there were people present at this little affair of his, ere men of vast reputation; and that we erred, if we deemed him unaccustomed to the society of the illustrious
But not a few of his nates seemed shy of Media and their laurels
Especially a tall robustuous felloith a terrible javelin in his hand, much notched and splintered, as if it had dealt , and there was a patch upon his sinister eye Hi Piko's island (of which anon) who had been all but h nameless encounter
”Ah,” said Media as this redoubtable withdrew, Fofi is a cunning knave; a braggart, driven forth, by King Piko for his cowardice He has blent his tattooing into one uised, must have palmed himself off here in Pimminee, for the man he is not
But I see many more like him”
”Oh ye Tapparians,” said Babbalanja, ”none so easily hus Taji: to behold this folly makes one wise Look, look; it is all round us Oh Pimminee, Pimminee!”
CHAPTER XXVII Babbalanja Falleth Upon Pi further civilities, we took courteus leave of the Begu to the beach, very soon were embarked
When all were pleasantly seated beneath the canopy, pipes in full blast, calabashes revolving, and the paddlers quietly urging us along, Media proposed that, for the benefit of the company, some one present, in a pithy, whiffy sentence or two, should su Babbalanja to that office
”Come, philosopher: let us see in ho syllables you can put the brand on those Tapparians”
”Pardonrequires more time, than to be brief An example: they say that in conversation old Bardianna dealt in nothing but trisyllabic sentences
His talk was thunder peals: sounding reports, but long intervals”
”The devil take old Bardianna And would that the grave-digger had buried his Ponderings, along with his other remains Can none be in your company, Babbalanja, but you must perforce make them hob-a-nob with that old prater? A brand for the Tapparians! that is e seek”
”You shall have it, my lord Full to the brim of themselves, for that reason, the Tapparians are the eood blow and well planted, Babbalanja”