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However, I shall make my case out clearly enough before long. This Guichet can help me, if he will. He knows Lenoir, and he knows something against him; that is clear. You saw how cautious he was the other day. The difficulty will be to make him speak." "I doubt if you will succeed." "I don't, mon cher. But we shall see. Then, again, I have another line of evidence open to me.
Mary Antony, hastening, thrust aside the buxom porteress, and herself opened the guichet, and looked out. The Lord Bishop, mounted upon his white palfrey, waited without; Brother Philip in attendance. What a bewildering surprise! What a fortunate thing, thought old Antony, that she should chance to be there to deal with such an emergency.
But here ensued inevitably the violent French altercation between the two human beings on either side of the guichet. Then, as suddenly as it had arisen, the squall blew over, an amicable settlement was arrived at, the exchange of reservation was effected, the small scoundrel, with ten thousand thanks and profuse assurances of deathless esteem, departed grinning.
Müller laughed and looked. "Tiens! Guichet," said he, "is that meant for a compliment?" "Where did you see him?" asked the model, pointing down at the sketch. "Why? Do you know him?" "Where did you see him, I say?" repeated Guichet, impatiently. He was a rough fellow, and garnished every other sentence with an oath; but he did not mean to be uncivil. "At the Café Procope." "When?"
It was a long, low, dark room, with a pale gleam of fading daylight struggling in through a tiny window at the farther end. We could see nothing at first but this gleam; and it was not till Guichet had raked out the wood ashes on the hearth, and blown them into a red glow with his breath, that we could distinguish the form or position of anything in the room.
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