game-peddler

Updated: June 20, 2025

Instead of staying with us to sustain us, you fled to Rambouillet, to poach in the woods with the game-peddler you knew at Bercy." "If I remained here, I should now have been at the galleys, like Ambrose, or fit to go, like Nicholas; I did not wish to be a robber like the others. Hence your hatred." "And what was your trade? You stole game; you stole fish; no danger in that, coward!"

Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02