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Santerre. *
sometimes paid by a smile from Rosa , it was not wise to draw upon them the displeasure of the father , who was a lover of order , as well as master of the house , and would allow no riotous person to trouble him . This terrible tavern-keeper constituted himself at once both judge and administrator of his own code of lawswhich he
, executed with such promptitude , that any transgressor found himself speedily ejected before he knew which way he was going . Sometimes it was by means of the door , but more generally through one of the windows of the coffee-room , when the weather permitted of their being open ; but in this case the descent was not dangerous , as the room was situated on the
ground-floor , and the path in front was kept quite smooth , and upon which , according to the strict injunctions of Rosa , the servant never allowed a stone to rest . It is almost useless to add , that when the brigands , who infested the country , were the topic of the day , it was above all others the subject of conversation at Pierre Renard ' s . No pedlar , tinker , or
pedestrian tradesman , whoever he might be , failed to bring there , as a sort of tribute , all the on dits that they had gathered during their peregrinations touching these aforesaid brigands . It was not known that they were a large band , but , from the number of crimes , which had often been committed on the same night , they were conjectured to be so , and there was an universal cry of l ^ robation against the authorities for permitting the people to become the prey of these hardy reprobates without taking the least means to prevent it .
' There are certainly here and there some gens d ' amies , who go up and down the roads , " said Pierre Renard , addressing himself more particularly to me , rather than to the other persons assembled in the house , because perhaps he judged from my exterior that I belonged to a better station in society , and Avas more able to sustain the conversation with him .
" Now , I ask you a simple question , sir , " said he ; "if these idle fellows , from the manner in which they proceed , can ever deliver us from one of these rascals 1 What else can they do , these worthless fellows that carry swords , but go from one place to another to get a glass of wine , either from the mayor or the deputyto avoid coming to an ale-housewhere they
, , would be obliged to put their hands into their pockets ?" At this very moment he received a flat denial to his assertion ; for , just as he had uttered these words , one of his servants , whom I had seen roving about the house , and whom I had often observed glancing furtively at his young mistress , came
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Santerre. *
sometimes paid by a smile from Rosa , it was not wise to draw upon them the displeasure of the father , who was a lover of order , as well as master of the house , and would allow no riotous person to trouble him . This terrible tavern-keeper constituted himself at once both judge and administrator of his own code of lawswhich he
, executed with such promptitude , that any transgressor found himself speedily ejected before he knew which way he was going . Sometimes it was by means of the door , but more generally through one of the windows of the coffee-room , when the weather permitted of their being open ; but in this case the descent was not dangerous , as the room was situated on the
ground-floor , and the path in front was kept quite smooth , and upon which , according to the strict injunctions of Rosa , the servant never allowed a stone to rest . It is almost useless to add , that when the brigands , who infested the country , were the topic of the day , it was above all others the subject of conversation at Pierre Renard ' s . No pedlar , tinker , or
pedestrian tradesman , whoever he might be , failed to bring there , as a sort of tribute , all the on dits that they had gathered during their peregrinations touching these aforesaid brigands . It was not known that they were a large band , but , from the number of crimes , which had often been committed on the same night , they were conjectured to be so , and there was an universal cry of l ^ robation against the authorities for permitting the people to become the prey of these hardy reprobates without taking the least means to prevent it .
' There are certainly here and there some gens d ' amies , who go up and down the roads , " said Pierre Renard , addressing himself more particularly to me , rather than to the other persons assembled in the house , because perhaps he judged from my exterior that I belonged to a better station in society , and Avas more able to sustain the conversation with him .
" Now , I ask you a simple question , sir , " said he ; "if these idle fellows , from the manner in which they proceed , can ever deliver us from one of these rascals 1 What else can they do , these worthless fellows that carry swords , but go from one place to another to get a glass of wine , either from the mayor or the deputyto avoid coming to an ale-housewhere they
, , would be obliged to put their hands into their pockets ?" At this very moment he received a flat denial to his assertion ; for , just as he had uttered these words , one of his servants , whom I had seen roving about the house , and whom I had often observed glancing furtively at his young mistress , came