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It is true, you must make champagne and claret serve, for my burgundy would not bear travelling. But if you have a fancy for sherry, or Vin de Cahors, I have a notion Chaubert and Tom Beacon have brought some for their own drinking." "Perhaps the gentlemen would not care to impart," said Ganlesse. "Oh, fie! anything in the way of civility," replied Smith.
A man has but one throat, and can but eat, with his best efforts, some five or six times a day; but thou dinest with every friend that cuts a capon, and art quaffing wine in other men's gullets, from morning to night et sic de cæteris." "Friend Ganlesse," returned Smith, "I prithee beware thou knowest I can cut gullets as well as tickle them."
When its light began to twinkle before them, the stranger, as if recollecting something he had forgotten, "By the way, you must have a name to pass by; for it may be ill travelling under your own, as the fellow who keeps this house is an old Cromwellian. What will you call yourself? My name is for the present Ganlesse." "There is no occasion to assume a name at all," answered Julian.
Hum! ha! ay squab-pigeons wildfowl young chickens venison cutlets and a space in the centre, wet, alas! by a gentle tear from Chaubert's eye, where should have been the soupe aux écrevisses. The zeal of that poor fellow is ill repaid by his paltry ten louis per month." "A mere trifle," said Ganlesse; "but, like yourself, Will, he serves a generous master."
"By a tenpenny cord," answered Smith; "but not till you were dead; that thereafter you be presently embowelled, you being yet alive; that your head be then severed from your body, and your body divided into quarters, to be disposed of at his Majesty's pleasure. How like you that, Master Richard Ganlesse?"
"They are, in truth, the best-natured lads alive, when treated respectfully; so that if you would prefer " "By no means," said Ganlesse "a glass of champagne will serve in a scarcity of better." "The cork shall start obsequious to my thumb." said Smith; and as he spoke, he untwisted the wire, and the cork struck the roof of the cabin.
And so, Master Ganlesse, keep your own pace, and I will keep the contrary; for I beg leave to forbear your company." As Peveril spoke thus, he pulled up his horse, and made a full stop. The stranger burst out a-laughing. "What!" he said, "you forbear my company for a trifle of danger? Saint Anthony! How the warm blood of the Cavaliers is chilled in the young men of the present day!
Who these two persons could be, Peveril could not attempt even to form a guess. There was nothing for it but to watch their manner and conversation. After speaking a moment in whispers, Smith said to his companion, "We must go look after our nags for ten minutes, and allow Chaubert to do his office." "Will not he appear, and minister before us, then?" said Ganlesse.
"You are like the old Romans, who held that hostis meant both a stranger and an enemy. I will therefore be no longer a stranger. My name is Ganlesse by profession I am a Roman Catholic priest I am travelling here in dread of my life and I am very glad to have you for a companion."
But if this were indeed that same Ganlesse with whom Julian had met on the preceding evening, and who had boasted the facility with which he could assume any character which he pleased to represent for the time, what could be the purpose of this present disguise?
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