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Considering the region, the dinner was not a bad one. I had soup, veal, eggs, and a fair wine. I had also a companion, but would rather have been without him. He was a young man, whose appearance gained by the contrast of a dusty wayfarer's, and he gave himself airs accordingly. I set him down as a petty functionary of the place, and a pensionnaire of the auberge.
"Why, Davy," she exclaimed, her eyes flashing, "you're talkin' like a growed man!" "Ay, ecod!" I boasted, flattered by the inference, "'twill not be many years afore we does more trade in our harbour than they does at the big stores o' Wayfarer's Tickle." A low growl, coming from the shadows in the hall, brought me to a full stop; and upon the heels of that a fantastic ejaculation: "Scuttle me!"
It seemed to him that he and the person he had been the farm-boy, the captive of the police, the guest of the Wayfarer's Lodge, the servant of Miss Vane, and the head-waiter at the hotel could not be the same person. He fell into a strange reverie, while the talk, in which he had shared so little, took a range far beyond him.
The only inn at St. Jean-Lespinasse was kept by a blacksmith, and the room where I had my meal was over the forge. Bread and cheese and eggs were, as I expected, the utmost that such a hostelry could offer in the way of food for a wayfarer's entertainment.
The traveler bore down on him from the west and reined his horse at the intersection of the two roads. He looked up the straight highway toward Pa-Ramesu, then turned in the saddle and gazed toward Tanis. His indecision was not a wayfarer's casual hesitancy in the choice of roads. By the anxiety written on his face, life, fortune or love might be at stake upon the correct selection of route.
When he got back to the Wayfarer's Lodge, whither he made himself walk in penance, he found Lemuel with a book in his hand, reading, while the cook stirred about the kitchen, and the broth, which he had well under way for the mid-day meal, lifted the lid of its boiler from time to time and sent out a joyous whiff of steam.
'Oh, I got him broke! But he didn't have " "And with that," said the clerk, "off he put." "Men," cried Tom Tot, looking about upon our group, "we'll cotch un yet!" So we set out in pursuit of Jagger of Wayfarer's Tickle, who had fled over the hills I laugh to think of it with an ugly, red-eyed leader, to be fed with a whip: which dog I knew.... No snow fell.
Roman roads are most inhospitable, offering no shade, and no seat, and no pleasant views of rustic domiciles; nothing but the wheel-track of white dust, without a foot path running by its side, and seldom any grassy margin to refresh the wayfarer's feet. April 3d. A few days ago we visited the studio of Mr. , an American, who seems to have a good deal of vogue as a sculptor.
They will have money, and it is not inconceivable that, for all his sorrowful thoughts, our botanist, with his trained observation, his habit of looking at little things upon the ground, would be the one to see and pick up the coin that has fallen from some wayfarer's pocket.
"Doctor Luke," said he, between his teeth, "I'm this year in service t' Jagger o' Wayfarer's Tickle; an' I've heared tell o' the quarrel atween you; an'...." "Yes?" the doctor inquired. "I've took sides." "I rather think," the doctor observed, "that you can tell me something I very much want to know." "I've no wish, God knows!" Jonas continued, with deep feeling, "t' betray my master.
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