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To this he replied that all might be perfectly true, but he did not believe a word of it that he had received an order for the apprehension of two English persons travelling that road and that he should accordingly request our company back to Chantraine, the commissionaire of which place was his officer.
No arguments which I could think of had any effect upon him, and amid a volley of entreaty and imprecation, both equally vain, we saw ourselves turn back upon the road to Amiens, and set out at a round trot to Chantraine, on the road to Calais.
No arguments which I could think of had any effect upon him, and amid a volley of entreaty and imprecation, both equally vain, we saw ourselves turn back upon the road to Amiens, and set out at a round trot to Chantraine, on the road to Calais.
"But why not take us to Amiens," said I; "particularly when I tell you that we can then show our passports?" "I belong to the Chantraine district," was the laconic answer; and like the gentleman who could not weep at the sermon because he belonged to another parish, this specimen of a French Dogberry would not hear reason except in his own "commune."
With the speed of lightning, my mind ran over every passage of our acquaintance our first meeting our solitary walks our daily, hourly associations our travelling intimacy the adventure at Chantraine; There was, it is true, nothing in all this which could establish the fact of wooing, but every thing which should convince an old offender like myself that the young lady was "en prise," and that I myself despite my really strong attachment elsewhere was not entirely scathless.
"But why not take us to Amiens," said I; "particularly when I tell you that we can then show our passports?" "I belong to the Chantraine district," was the laconic answer; and like the gentleman who could not weep at the sermon because he belonged to another parish, this specimen of a French Dogberry would not hear reason except in his own "commune."
Bingham an account of my adventure at Chantraine, in which, of course, I endeavoured to render my friend O'Leary all the honours of being laughed at in preference to myself, laying little stress upon my masquerading in the jack-boots.
To this he replied that all might be perfectly true, but he did not believe a word of it that he had received an order for the apprehension of two English persons travelling that road and that he should accordingly request our company back to Chantraine, the commissionaire of which place was his officer.
Bingham an account of my adventure at Chantraine, in which, of course, I endeavoured to render my friend O'Leary all the honours of being laughed at in preference to myself, laying little stress upon my masquerading in the jack-boots.
With the speed of lightning, my mind ran over every passage of our acquaintance our first meeting our solitary walks our daily, hourly associations our travelling intimacy the adventure at Chantraine; There was, it is true, nothing in all this which could establish the fact of wooing, but every thing which should convince an old offender like myself that the young lady was "en prise," and that I myself despite my really strong attachment elsewhere was not entirely scathless.
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