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But Sylvie hastily checked him, for fear of hurting the Mastiff's feelings. "Please, we want a little food, and a night's lodging if there's room in the house," she added timidly. Sylvie spoke Doggee very prettily: but I think it's almost better, for you, to give the conversation in English. "The house, indeed!" growled the Sentinel. "Have you never seen a Palace in your life? Come along with me!
He was followed to the schoolmaster's lodging, and thence, an hour after, to his own, by a little boy far too little to excite suspicion, the grandson of Mrs Catanach's friend, the herb doctor. Until now the woman had not known that Malcolm was in London.
A given population is more regularly and better fed than one-fifth of its number would at that time have been. A city of four millions would then have been an impossibility. Dress and lodging are better, and relatively cheaper. Hygiene is more understood, imperfect as is its application. Some diseases due to its disregard have disappeared or been localized.
We retired from the chateau with the same precautions which had marked our entrance, and parting with M. de Rambouillet at the door of our lodging not without many protestations of esteem on his part and of gratitude on that of M. de Rosny mounted to the first-floor in single file and in silence, which I was determined not to be the first to break.
On looking round he saw a ladder, which led through a trap-door to the floor above. "Your lodging is to be up there," said O'Harrall, pointing to it. "It may remind you of a place in which you once gave me shelter. I have not forgotten that. I wish that I could afford you better accommodation; however, it is sufficiently large and airy, and you will, I hope, find it as comfortable as you desire.
He replied that he had very little to say, being a man of few words, but such as it was, it was to the purpose and so, indeed, it turned out for he immediately went on to tell me that a friend of his was in want of a kind of secretary and librarian; and that although the salary was small, being only a hundred pounds a year, with neither board nor lodging, still the duties were not heavy, and there the post was.
"You mustn't lock up yet," said the girl, "Eve is out." "What's she doing?" "I don't know. At the theatre with friends, I dare say." "If we'd been staying on here, that young woman would have had to look out for another lodging. There's something I don't like about her, and if you take my advice, Patty, you'll shake her off. She'll do you no good, my girl."
It will be your pain for the time, but your pleasure to behold such people. And surely the place must content you, being as fair a soil and as goodly a prospect as may be seen or found, as this extreme weather hath made trial, which doth us little annoyance, it is so firm and dry a ground. Your usher also liketh your lodging a proper, secret, cleanly house.
But somehow that request stuck in the old man's throat. When I got outside the park gates I pulled down my pack and took out of it the only thing that had stood between me and a night's lodging a grey tweed sportsman's jacket and I put it on, and with it a collar and tie, and I walked along the road in real sadness. For I felt wounded.
At the close, we found at least fifty people in that great throng on their knees, crying for mercy. It was a most triumphant and joyful time, and the people were loth to separate. We slept that night at Porth, as that part of the village is called. The next morning two fishermen came to my lodging, bringing a large basket of fish as a present.
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