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All three entered Mere Rebec's establishment, and in less than a quarter of an hour the stout, limping hostess succeeded in serving them an omelet of respectable appearance with brown-bread and light wine. Peasants do not eat quickly, and Petit-Pierre had such an enormous appetite that nearly an hour passed before Germain could think of renewing their journey.
"I knew that we shouldn't go far before monsieur would cry from hunger or thirst." "I'm thirsty, too!" said Petit-Pierre. "Well, we will go to Mère Rebec's wine-shop at Corlay, at the sign of the Break of Day. A fine sign, but a poor inn! Come, Marie, you will drink a finger of wine too." "No, no, I don't need anything," she said, "I'll hold the mare while you go in with the little one."
Upon my word, it pains me more than I can tell you, and I have a mind to take you back to your mother, instead of going to Fourche." "You speak very kindly, but without sense, my poor Germain; one shouldn't be cowardly for his friends, and instead of pointing out the dark side of my lot, you ought to show me the bright side, as you did when we dined at La Rebec's."
You wouldn't drink some wine, I suppose, if you had some?" "I? I drank with you to-night at La Rebec's for the second time in my life; but if you'll be very good, I will give you a bottle almost full, and of good wine too!" "What, Marie, are you really a magician?" "Weren't you foolish enough to order two bottles of wine at La Rebec's?
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