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Updated: May 6, 2025
"True, dear uncle; but do not quite leave us, because of that." "Be sure I shall not: for I am curious as you are to see these terrible animals, and the famous Morok, the incomparable lion-tamer." A few minutes after, Mdlle. de Cardoville's carriage had left the Champs Elysees, carrying with it the little girl, and directing its course towards the Rue d'Anjou.
Then he cried aloud, addressing the host, who was terrified at this disorder: "Brandy! let us drink to the health of the brave Wolves! I will stand treat." He threw some money to the host, who disappeared, and soon returned with several bottles of brandy, and some glasses. "What! glasses?" cried Morok. "Do jolly companions, like we are, drink out of glasses?"
"You are both foolish and ungrateful," said Morok, shrugging his shoulders; "you held out your glass, and I filled it and, faith, we shall drink long and often together yet." For some moments, Cephyse had not withdrawn her eyes from Morok.
Come," added he, puffing out his cheeks with an important air, "go down before me and as for you, Morok " The burgomaster was unable to finish.
"Waiter!" cried Jacques, interrupting Morok with angry impatience, "two bottles of brandy, and two glasses!" "What are you going to do?" said Morok, with pretended uneasiness. "Why do you order two bottles of brandy?" "For a duel," said Jacques, in a cool, resolute tone. "A duel!" cried the spectators, in surprise. "Yes," resumed Jacques, "a duel with brandy.
Whilst a part of the guests were still in the room, an uproar, at first distant, but which soon drew nearer, broke out with incredible fury in the square of Notre Dame. Jacques had been carried to the outer door of the tavern. Morok and Ninny Moulin, striving to open a passage through the crowd in the direction of the Hospital, preceded the litter.
And whilst Goliath, swearing to himself, proceeded to execute his instructions, Morok opened the great door of the shed, looked out into the yard, and listened. "Here's the pike and the cloth," said the giant, as he descended the ladder with the articles. "Now what must I do next?" "Return to the cellar, mount once more by the window, and when the old man leaves the room "
Dagobert was here interrupted by the tread of some one mounting the stairs: it was the Prophet. Concealed in the shadow of the staircase, he had listened to this conversation, and he dreaded lest the weakness of the burgomaster should mar the complete success of his projects. Morok, who wore his left arm in a sling, having slowly ascended the staircase, saluted the burgomaster respectfully.
"Now, I understand," said Jacques, shuddering in his turn. "It is terrible." "Yes; for once there, though I may not see this cursed Englishman, I fancy I have his two round eyes, fixed and wide open, always before me. My tiger Cain once nearly mutilated my arm, when my attention was drawn away by this Englishman, whom the devil take! Blood and thunder!" cried Morok: "this man will be fatal to me."
Morok, the lion-tamer, seeing Dagobert deprived of his horse, and stripped of his money and papers, and thinking it was thus out of his power to continue his journey, had, previous to the arrival of the burgomaster, despatched Karl to Leipsic, as the bearer of a letter which he was to put immediately into the post.
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