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"You got your work cut if you're goin' to beat her," said Cherry. "No fear!" answered Albert. "Got the Sunday paper? What are they layin'?" "Sevens the favourite," replied the old ostler, producing it. "The rest any price." The youth glanced at the betting news. "Sevens it is," he said. "Price shortening.
An ostler led his horse to the stables, and he entered the house. Now the fellow was so completely in my power that I had the mind to watch him a little further. Several persons were in the room, but he had taken his place at an unoccupied table in the corner, and called for the host. "Some food and a little wine," he said, "but serve me quickly; I have important business on hand."
How know you?" "I had it from the ostler at the Veau qui Tete that a certain Captain Fortunio an Italian soldier of fortune who commands the men at Condillac was at the Auberge de France last night, offering wine to whomsoever would drink with him, and paying for it out of Madame la Marquise's purse.
The sun was well up, showing a jolly red face, which indicated that he had been passing the night in the tropics, when Claudius, having said his farewell within the hospitable house where his bill had been obstinately withheld from him, took the reins in the chaise. The grinning ostler held the unbarred door of the yard ready to open it quickly and slam it behind him.
Oleanders in tubs and red salvias in pots, and kitchen herbs in boxes, flourish on the pavement, where the ostler comes to wash his carriages, and where the barber shaves the poodle of the house.
Barely had he succeeded in ensconcing himself there, when footsteps were heard ascending the ladder, and a moment later a sharp knocking at the door announced to the only too conscious conspirators that the landlord was waiting to enter. "Halloa," shouted the ostler, as he stamped upon the floor with his fork, to convey the impression that he was busily engaged, at work.
In the love of the lady he will be succeeded by a gardener, who will be replaced by a monk, who will give way to an ostler, who will be deposed by a Jew pedler, who shall, finally, yield to a noble earl, the future husband of the fair Mathilde. So that, you see, instead of having one poor soul a-frying, we may now look forward to a goodly harvest for our lord the Devil."
"You can't get in here, I've got my work to do." Edmund was astonished at the cool impudence of his friend, and he lifted his head to accord him a nod of approval, but a bundle of straw which the ostler purposely tossed at him from the other side of the room made him quickly withdraw his cranium again into the shelter. "Let me in, I say," shouted a voice from below.
'Brave! brave! cried Jonathan in ecstasy. 'Seventy pounds! O, it's brave! 'Well, I don't see the great bravery, observed the ostler, misapprehending him. 'Three men, and you may call that three to one. I'll call it brave when some one stops the mail single- handed; that's a risk. 'And why should they hesitate? inquired Mr. Archer.
If I don't attend Northam church, I pay my month's shilling for the use of the poor, as the act directs; and beyond that, neither you nor any man dare demand of me." "Dare! act directs! You rascally lawyer, you! and whence does an ostler like you get your shilling to pay withal? Answer me." The examinate found it so difficult to answer the question, that he suddenly became afflicted with deafness.
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