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"Our mountains are safe, Monsieur," replied the landlady, with offended dignity; "except for the pedler who was assassinated six months ago and whose body was found in the Combe-aux-Renards " "And the driver who was stopped three weeks ago in the Fosse," added Mademoiselle Reine; "the thieves did not quite kill him, but he is still in the hospital at Remiremont."
"I guess your sprain wasn't as bad as you let on," observed Grandma Padgett. The observation, or a twinge, reminded Mr. Matthews to double himself down and groan again. With painful limps, and Robert Day's assistance, he got the cart before the fireplace. It looked like a narrow, high green box on wheels. The pedler blocked the wheels behind, and propped the handle level.
They halted beneath a spreading chestnut-tree which towered above its neighbors, and offered them a grateful shelter from the noonday sun. From the box underneath the seat, the pedler took out a loaf of bread, a slice of butter, and a tin pail full of doughnuts. Paul, on his side, brought out his bread and gingerbread.
"Spit on the head of the man who printed that! he lies, the dog of a Moscow pedler! Did I say that? I'll tell it to you on the spot." We moved up to the table, and he began. When he used to begin on a tale, you wouldn't stir from the spot all day, but keep on listening.
"I can't spare things from the children; it won't do to let him sleep on the floor." "I have a cart, it has been said, Which serves me both for cupboard and bed," chanted Mr. Matthews. "Well, that's a good thing," said Grandma Padgett. "If you could pull a whole furnished house out of that cart 'twouldn't surprise me." The pedler opened the door and dragged his cart in over the low sill.
If he were rid of it, he and Abe might make a shift to get along. It was a case, emphatically; in which two were company and three a crowd. He spied the father in Stanton Street where he was working, but when he saw Adam he tried to run away. Desperation gave the pedler both strength and speed, however, and he overhauled him despite his handicaps, and thrust the baby upon him.
The pedler had somewhat "overleaped his shoulders," as they phrase it in the West, when his companion drew himself back over the blazing embers, with a look of ill-concealed aversion, exclaiming, as he did so "Why, you ain't a Yankee, air you?" The pedler was a special pleader in one sense of the word, and knew the value of a technical distinction as well as his friend, Lawyer Pippin.
But as the characters and their signification became more clear and obvious to his gaze, his features grew more and more sobered and intelligent a blankness overspread his face his hands trembled, and finally, his apprehensions, whatever they might have been, having seemingly undergone full confirmation, he crumpled the villanous scrawl in his hands, and dashing it to the floor in a rage, roared out in quick succession volley after volley of invective and denunciation upon the thrice-blasted head of the pedler.
Michael's pear tree where nobody would find him till the morning." As soon as this horrible intelligence was communicated the stranger betook himself to his journey again with more speed than ever, not even turning his head when Dominicus invited him to smoke a Spanish cigar and relate all the particulars. The pedler whistled to his mare and went up the hill, pondering on the doleful fate of Mr.
But, as I was saying, my friends, I am required to arraign before you this same pedler, Jared Bunce, on sundry charges of misdemeanor, and swindling, and fraud in short, as I understand it, for endeavoring, without having the fear of God and good breeding in his eyes, to pass himself off upon the good people of this county as an honest man. Is this the charge, my friends?"
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