Part Eighth"La vie est vaine:
Un peu d'amour,
Un peu de haine....
Et puis—bonjour!
"La vie est brève:
Un peu d'espoir,
Un peu de rève....
Et puis—bonsoir."
S VENGALI had died from heart-disease. The cut he had received from Gecko had not apparently (as far as the verdict of a coroner's inquest could be trusted) had any effect in aggravating his malady or hastening his death.
But Gecko was sent for trial at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to hard labor for six months (a sentence which, if I remember aright, gave rise to much comment at the time). Taffy saw him again, but with no better result than before. He chose to preserve an obstinate silence on his relations with the Svengalis and their relations with each other.
When he was told how hopelessly ill and insane Madame Sveng
