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Naturally, he had a high opinion of his own judgment, in which opinion his dependants agreed with him before his face, but differed from it behind his back. However, every one allowed that he was a worthy man, a good landlord, a kind master, and a faithful friend. A cloud, however, rested on his home.
It was an opportunity to which the latter had been looking forward for many a day, but which he had never desired so keenly as at that moment. "Are you likely to be at Crompton soon again?" inquired the landlord, pursuing the subject of the evening's talk. "I have no intention of going there at present," returned Richard. "The fact is, Mr.
Attracted to the waters of the lake where the beautiful Italian awaited him, he reached Geneva by the end of October. To avoid the discomforts of the town he took rooms in a house at Eaux-Vives, outside the walls. As soon as he was settled, his first care was to ask his landlord, a retired jeweler, whether some Italian refugees from Milan had not lately come to reside at Geneva.
Thus matters stood at the inn-gate, where there was a very lively exchange of fisticuffs and punches, to the sore damage of the landlord and to the wrath of Maritornes, the landlady, and her daughter, who were furious when they saw the pusillanimity of Don Quixote, and the hard treatment their master, husband and father was undergoing.
With some difficulty and much gesticulation Terence succeeded. The names of the officers were written down on a paper and it was then fastened on the door. "Now, Terence, I will go and fetch the boys; you and Hoolan make the landlord understand that we want food and wine for fifteen or sixteen officers. Of course they won't all be able to get away at once.
With this information and a stanza or two from Lopez de Vega I left the Inn of the Rose and Crown behind me, having first paid my reckoning. At the door the landlord asked me for my name and address. "And why?" I asked. "Lest there should be inquiry for you," said the landlord. "But why should they inquire for me?" "Ah, who knows?" said the landlord, musing.
Accordingly, as soon as the sun was up they entered the village, and went into a cabaret and called for wine and bread. "You are travelling early," the landlord said. "Yes, we have a long tramp before us, so we thought we had better perform part of it before breakfast." "These are busy times. Folks are passing through, one way or the other, all day.
But he was deprived of an opportunity, for the very good reason that the landlord had disappeared, and was not again seen before their departure. The driver gathered up his reins, cracked his whip, and the stage started. Herbert looked at George Melville a little anxiously, not knowing what course he had decided to take.
The journey from Motiers to Colombier being too long for me to perform in one day, I commonly divided it by setting off after dinner and sleeping at Brot, which is half way. The landlord of the house where I stopped, named Sandoz, having to solicit at Berlin a favor of importance to him, begged I would request his excellency to ask it in his behalf. "Most willingly," said I, and took him with me.
Setting himself down near the fire I called for a glass of whiskey and water, and then observing that the landlord and his friend had suddenly become silent, I said: "Pray go on with your discourse; don't let me be any hindrance to you." "Yes, sir!" said the landlord snappishly, "go on with our discourse for your edification, I suppose?"
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