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Trace of the lost 'Thanase had brought him at length to this point. The word of a fellow-tramp, pledged on the honor of his guild, gave assurance that thus far the wanted man had come in strength and hope but more than a month before. The necessity of moving on presently carried Bonaventure aimlessly into the city along the banks of the New Canal.
'I eat very little, said my black-bearded, bright-eyed fellow-tramp; 'but, he added, 'I drink three or four glasses of absinthe a day. 'You will eat still less, I said, 'if you don't soon begin to turn off the tap.
There is the smug master-butcher from round the corner, who has a very becoming sense of his own position in society; two mild-spoken bookseller’s clerks, who scarcely find their voices till the evening is far advanced; my friend and fellow-tramp the glovemaker; a spruce little model of a man, with the crispest hair, and the fullest and best trimmed moustache in the world, and who is no doubt a great man somewhere; a tremendous fellow of a student, who talks of cannon-boots, rapiers, and Berliner Weiss Bier; and an individual whose only distinguishing feature is his nose, and that is an insult to polite society.
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