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Updated: May 15, 2025
No wonder the people of this land spent so much time crossing themselves and calling upon her for protection they certainly had cause to. The room, in his opinion, was a veritable rat-hole; the place little better than what one might expect to find in a suburb of hell. The exertions of the last two days had been more than mortal could endure.
The confusion only lasted a moment. "Surround the rat-hole! Not a single one must escape down with the poliziotti!" exclaimed the Italians, wildly. In firm columns they advanced against the barracks, and then they paused. Suppose treachery was in store for them? The patriots now retreated to the right and left, to make room for two persons: a white-haired old man and a handsome dark-featured boy.
This Ferou, as I learned later, was one of his right-hand men, years-long supporter. Mayenne had as soon expected to meet a lion in the tunnel as to meet a foe. He cried out again upon us, with an instinctive certainty that a great prince's question must be answered: "How came you here?" "I don't ask," said M. Étienne, "how it happens that M. le Duc is walking through this rat-hole.
"There it is," he said, "and I earned it myself and so I ain't poking it down any rat-hole without being condemned sure that I'll be able to pull it all back again with just as much more sticking to it. That wouldn't be sooavable and from what you know of me I'm always sooavable."
The Mayor once replied to a letter inquiring about him, "He is a nobody and lives in a rat-hole." But Garrison managed to print his paper rather irregularly, to be sure, but he printed it. From one room he moved into two, and a straggling company, calling themselves "The Anti-Slavery Society," used his office for a meeting-place.
There was considerable speculation as to what was passing between Billy Windsor and Mr. Gooch. Psmith's share in the entertainment was more obvious. The early comers had seen his interview with Sam, and were relating it with gusto to their friends. Their attitude towards Psmith was that of a group of men watching a terrier at a rat-hole.
He then backed into the cellar in the usual crab fashion, and gave directions for the required depression of the tunnel and vigorous resumption of the work. The hole made in the roof of the tunnel was not much larger than a rat-hole and could not be seen from the prison.
Then we heard steps on the stairs, and blowed out our light and hid; and here comes the old man, with a candle in one hand and a bundle of stuff in t'other, looking as absent-minded as year before last. He went a mooning around, first to one rat-hole and then another, till he'd been to them all. Then he stood about five minutes, picking tallow-drip off of his candle and thinking.
As there was no door to the walled cell of the Tour-Roland, these two words had been carved in large Roman capitals over the window, And this caused the people, whose good sense does not perceive so much refinement in things, and likes to translate Ludovico Magno by "Porte Saint-Denis," to give to this dark, gloomy, damp cavity, the name of "The Rat-Hole."
Most of this fortune went into a rat-hole to help pay the debts of the Mad Jack. One child was born to this ill-assorted pair a boy who was destined to write his name large on history's page. But such a pedigree! No wonder the youth once wrote to Augusta, his half-sister, expressing a covetous appreciation of her parentage, even with its bar sinister.
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