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While they were walking away, Thenardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, which were a little rounded, and his great fists. Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since I was going hunting!" However, the inn-keeper did not give up.
He listened for the answer eagerly, for if such was the case, not only was his journey useless, but had brought him into the very jaws of destruction. He would have thrown away his life for nothing. "No, Sir, indeed and he never will be," replied the inn-keeper. "When the sea don't give a man up in four-and-twenty hours, it keeps him for good at least we always find it so at Gethin."
It is said that the inn-keeper hath a buried treasure, and I doubt not, my fair lord, that if you grant me leave I could prevail upon him to tell us where he hath hid it." "Nay, nay, Simon," said Sir Nigel curtly, "I pray you to forget these free companion tricks. Ha!
We anchored our vessel which had a double hold, where our goods were concealed amidst a number of other vessels that bordered the banks of the Rhone from Beaucaire to Arles. On our arrival we began to discharge our cargo in the night, and to convey it into the town, by the help of the inn-keeper with whom we were connected.
They appealed to me to lessen the dignity of my position, and to reduce me to the level of an inn-keeper, or one who received boarders. I wished to command a ship, not to take in lodgers; persons whom you are bound to treat with a certain degree of consideration, and, in one sense, as your superiors.
"Ha! here's Pere Leger," cried the inn-keeper, when the coach pulled up before the door. "Do you breakfast?" "Always once a day," said the fat farmer; "and I'll break a crust here and now." "Give us a good breakfast," cried Georges, twirling his cane in a cavalier manner which excited the admiration of poor Oscar.
'My lord, said the inn-keeper, 'the gentleman wanted to pay me, but I respected the orders I had received from your highness and would not take the money. At this the prince flung him a louis with an ill grace, and asked us who we were. I told him that we belonged to you, and that you had not waited for us either, which put us to great trouble.
His residence was some little distance away, near the Casino, at the right we should ask for Mâitre Fingret anyone could tell us. When should messieurs be expected to return? It was impossible to say. We set off along the street, leaving the inn-keeper staring after us along the Rue Alphonse Karr, lined on both sides by houses, each with its little shop on the ground floor.
Run your hand in here and enjoy the thrill," and Roland held open the mouth of the bag which contained his treasure. "Ah!" cried the inn-keeper, his face aglow. "No such meal is spread to-night in Frankfort as will be set before you." There was a great shout as Roland entered the Kaiser cellar, and a hurrah of welcome. "Ha, renegade!" cried one. "Have you shirked your task so soon?"
There, grouped around his table, sat the Dominie, Doctor Critchel, Bright the inn-keeper, and the schoolmaster, for Hanz had invited them to sup with him, and Angeline had prepared the best she had to set before them. There, too, was Tite's empty chair. There it stood, silent and touching, all the pleasant memories it once contained made sad now by the mystery that enshrouded his long absence.
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