hody's

Updated: May 31, 2025

At this statement the administrator of Belgian safety completely unbent, and said to Cournet, with the most gracious smile that the police can find, "That's all right, sir; stay here as long as you please; we close Belgium to the Men of the Mountain, but we throw it widely open to men like you." When Cournet told me this answer of Hody's, I thought that my fourth Belgian was right.

Victor Hugo - The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness