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"Set you to play six-eight time an' 'tis beads right away." "A slice o' saffern-cake, crowder, to stay ye. Don't say no. Hi, Mary Jane!" "Thank 'ee, Farmer. A man might say you was in sperrits to-night, makin' so bold." "I be; I be." "Might a man ax wherefore, beyond the nat'ral hail-fellow-well-met of the season?" "You may, an' yet you mayn't," answered the host, passing on with the mug.
The host took the candle and went upstairs first, to light them and show them the way; but seeing the street door ajar, the rascals took to their heels, and were off like shadows, leaving the host to take in settlement of his account another of his wife's offerings.
Think of that, ye ladies who give as much for a gown! Our new servant, Olive, was as clean, orderly, and active as our late one had been the reverse. The difference it made in our comfort was as great as if we had had our former establishment restored, and really our bonne was a host within herself.
By eating your dinners at Flicoteaux's you learn a host of things of which the wealthy, the idle, and folk indifferent to the phases of Nature have no suspicion, and the student penned up in the Latin Quarter is kept accurately informed of the state of the weather and good or bad seasons.
We gasped at our narrow escape, and after getting that villainous automobile horse in motion again, pressed some cigars upon our distinguished host, and on reaching the dock thanked him heartily for our charming morning, impressing upon him that the Burnside was at his disposition at any and all times, an invitation of which he later availed himself.
How it would end, whether in the long-lingering fear which wastes the energies and saps the strength of a people, or in the conflict of a civil war, the prospect was equally ruinous. Sadly pondering on these things, I parted with my humble host, and set out towards the capital.
For into this same chamber had come another distinguished personage, a lawyer or society man, I couldn't tell which, who was washing himself rather leisurely, as was not the prescribed way, when suddenly he was spied by mine host, who was invariably instructing some one in this swift one-minute or less system.
"Fly, Olivier!" cried Sleepinbuff, almost sobered by the danger. Hardly had he pronounced the words when the door of the large room, which communicated with the small one in which they were, was burst open with a frightful crash. "Here they are!" cried the host, clasping his hands in alarm.
He gave us a delicious supper, and everything would have gone on pleasantly had not the friar, already excited by his good dinner, made himself quite drunk. In that state, thinking to please his new host, he began to abuse the other, greatly to my annoyance; he said the wine he had given us to drink was adulterated, and that the man was a thief.
"A Berlin!" responded the troops; and now and then, as the bands struck up the "Marseillaise," the population and the troops burst out in chorus with the solemn, spirit-stirring words. At the head of this brilliant host rode Marshal Le Buf, who was minister of war and military tutor to the Prince Imperial.
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