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The two bodies had been taken into the hotel office, to await the coming of the landlord, and there they lay covered with a blanket. The moment Landlord Larry was seen, coming from the cabin of Doctor Dick, cries arose of: "Speech! speech! "Tell the news, landlord!" and so on.
"Oh," said Durtal, considering the old caricature, shrivelled by bad air and "three-six," "but if she is tired of that sort of thing, why did she run off with a man?" Rateau made a grimace of pitying contempt, "Oh, he's impotent. Good for nothing " "Ah!" "It's my job I'm sore about. The landlord won't keep a concierge that hasn't a wife."
No sooner had we got fairly into the station than the car was invaded by a crowd of Porters touting for employment. They are all dressed in white, and wear red caps, on which is a brass number, by means of which they are easily recognised. The landlord from the Hotel Ingles, M. Tellier, met us, and we at once drove off, leaving our luggage to follow, in charge of one of the red-capped gentlemen.
The landlord selected the two bedsteads, the chairs, trunk, and table, for what they were indebted to him, as the porter said who came up with us.
The people have been let alone; they retain the holdings their fathers tilled, and they have tided over bad times so well that their April rents have, to my certain knowledge, been all paid. What will occur in November it is unnecessary to predict, but it may be remarked, by the way, that the Irish landlord, whose rents do not overlap each other, is in an exceptionally fortunate position.
I suppose you could do with a drink, couldn't you?" "Rather!" said Bill, with a grin. "Good. Then have one at the 'Plough and Horses. Have two, if you like, and talk to the landlord, or landlady, or whoever serves you. I want you to find out if anybody stayed there on Monday night." "Robert?" said Bill eagerly. "I didn't say Robert," said Antony, smiling.
'Just so, the landlord answered, as he paused at the foot of the staircase. 'And, if you please what might your name be, sir? A cold sweat rose on the tutor's brow; he looked helplessly towards the door. If he gave his name and the matter were followed up, he would be traced, and it was impossible to say what might not come of it. At last, 'Mr. Thomas, he said, with a sneaking guilty look.
What would the shopkeeper know about M. Bertrand, my landlord of half a century ago; or his first wife, to whose funeral I went; or his second, to whose bridal I was bidden? I ought next to have gone to the hospital La Pitie, where I passed much of my time during those two years.
Passing from that philosophical view of his own ancestors in particular, and of the human race in general, Kenelm Chillingly then touched with serene analysis on the eulogies lavished on his father as man and landlord. "As man," he said, "my father no doubt deserves all that can be said by man in favour of man. But what, at the best, is man?
"Well," said Abe, "you'll find him a good farmer; none better." "And he'll find me a landlord, willing to let bygones be bygones. By the way," added Sir Cæsar, yet more carelessly, "I am curious to know if I met that sister-in-law of his the other day? a decidedly handsome woman, and strikingly well dressed. In fact, I should say she bought her clothes in Paris."
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