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346 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP
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CHAPTER XXI
TREATS OF DANCING, DINING, DYING
LD schoolboys remember how, when pious Æneas was compelled
by painful circumstances to quit his country, he and
his select band of Trojans founded a new Troy, where they
landed ; raising temples to the Trojan gods ; building streets with
Trojan names ; and endeavouring, to the utmost of their power, to
recall their beloved native place. In like manner, British Trojans
and French Trojans take their Troy everywhere. Algiers I have
only seen from the sea ; but New Orleans and Leicester Square I
have visited ; and have seen a quaint old France still lingering on
the banks of the Mississippi ; a dingy modern France round that
great Globe of Mr. Wyld's, which they say is coming to an end.
There are French cafe's, billiards, estaminets, waiters, markers, poor
Frenchmen, and rich Frenchmen, in a new Paris—shabby and
dirty, it is true—but offering the emigrant the dominoes, the
chopine, the petit-verre of the patrie. And do not British Trojans,
who emigrate to the continent of Europe, take their Troy with
them ? You all know the quarters of Paris which swarm with us
Trojans. From Peace Street to the Arch of the Star are collected
thousands of refugees from our Ilium. Under the arcades of the
Rue de Rivoli you meet, at certain hours, as many of our Trojans
as of the natives. In the Trojan inns of " Meurice," the " Louvre,"
&c, we swarm. We have numerous Anglo-Trojan doctors and
apothecaries, who give us the dear pills and doses of Pergamus.
We go to Mrs. Guerre or kind Mrs. Colombin, and can purchase
the sandwiches of Troy, the pale ale and sherry of Troy, and the
dear dear muffins of home. We live for years, never speaking any
language but our native Trojan ; except to our servants, whom we
instruct in the Trojan way of preparing toast for breakfast ; Trojan
bread-sauce for fowls and partridges ; Trojan corned beef, &c. We
have temples where we worship according to the Trojan rites. A
kindly sight is that which one beholds of a Sunday in the Elysian
fields and the St. Honoré quarter, of processions of English grown
people and children, stalwart, red-cheeked, marching to their
churches, their gilded prayer-books in hand, to sing in a stranger's