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Weller; 'only I wouldn't show that wery fine edge too much, if I was you, in case anybody took it off. What do you mean by comin' to a hot-el, and asking arter Sam, vith as much politeness as a vild Indian? ''Cos an old gen'l'm'n told me to, replied the boy. 'What old gen'l'm'n? inquired Sam, with deep disdain. 'Him as drives a Ipswich coach, and uses our parlour, rejoined the boy.
"I am sorry that I do not understand you," she said, turning to the man. "Madame want an hot-el? That hot-el a good one," tapping the card with his finger, and dexterously turning the reverse side upward, where was set forth in English the advantages of a certain Antwerp inn. "Thank you, but we make no stay at Antwerp; we go straight on at once." And she would have handed back the card.
'Ven the lady and gen'l'm'n as keeps the hot-el first begun business, they used to make the beds on the floor; but this wouldn't do at no price, 'cos instead o' taking a moderate twopenn'orth o' sleep, the lodgers used to lie there half the day.
No, he would not receive it. "Madame might be wanting an hot-el at another time; on her return, it might be. If so, would she patronize it? it was a good hot-el; perfect!" Mrs. Channing slipped the card into her reticule, and searched her directions to see what hotel Hamish had indicated, should they require one at Antwerp. She found it to be the Hotel du Parc.
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