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He looked at the stranger, a very well dressed gentlemanly man too manlike for a tailor too polished for a horse-dealer; his Wellingtons were brightly polished he was perhaps his boot-maker. "Oh, you wish to see Mr Chatterton?" he said aloud. "Very much," replied the stranger. "I have some business with him that admits of no delay." "An arrest at least," thought the youth.
At three o'clock or thereabouts they were at last ready to leave. They got on the wagon, and so far everything went all right; but then our mutual friend turns off from the main road and drives with them over fields and heath, as fast as the horses can go. The wagon is flung from one side to the other. Finally things get too wild for the horse-dealer and he yells that he wants to get down.
A most magnificent animal has found his way to this neighbourhood a half-bred Arabian he is at present in the hands of a low horse-dealer; he can be bought for eight pounds, but no person will have him; it is said that he kills everybody who mounts him. I have been CHARMING him, and have so far succeeded that at present he does not fling me more than once in five minutes.
One fact which has not been explained is the statement of Barrymore that his master's footprints altered their character from the time that he passed the moor-gate, and that he appeared from thence onward to have been walking upon his toes. One Murphy, a gipsy horse-dealer, was on the moor at no great distance at the time, but he appears by his own confession to have been the worse for drink.
Two or three of the men raised their voices to say that they knew that Varlofski the horse-dealer had a brother who was drafted into the army as a punishment for having struck a Russian sergeant in a brawl. "This must be the man, then," the leader said.
Hardy put the horse through its paces, and if his judgment was not favourable, it was declined; but if doubtful. Garth rode it, and Hardy looked on. A couple of horses were thus selected, and both had Robert Garth's unqualified approval. "They are both as handsome as paint, and as sound as bells," said Garth. "Are you a horse-dealer?" asked Pastor Lindal, of Hardy, one evening.
Ye'll make a wonderful account of it. Never a word will I say to anyone till I see it in print. 'Thank you. That goes straight to an ethnologist's heart. Well, I must be getting back to my breakfast. Good Heavens! Old Mahbub here still? He raised his voice, and the horse-dealer came out from under the shadow of the tree, 'Well, what is it?
A thrill of anguish shot through me at the discovery; but instead of flying into a rage, as I would have done the evening before, I only shed a few tears, fearfully regarding the "horse-dealer." Aye, I cried before that man aye, I looked at him with fear. What could have come over me during the night? Was I still under the influence of the philter poured into the wine? No, my torpor had gone.
‘She’s a nice-looking ’ooman too,’ added the horse-dealer. ‘What’s he in for, Ikey?’ inquired Walker, of an individual who was spreading a cloth with numerous blotches of mustard upon it, on one of the tables, and whom Mr. Gabriel Parsons had no difficulty in recognising as the man who had called upon him in the morning.
After he had explained the matter to the hunting-page and impressed upon him the importance of the paper which was in Kohlhaas' possession, the Elector asked him whether he wished to win an eternal right to his friendship by procuring this paper for him before the horse-dealer reached Berlin.
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