[Bred in the Bone by James Payn]@TWC D-Link bookBred in the Bone CHAPTER XIII 15/19
If there was no gate there, do you think any body would pay me for viewing the place? Not they.
Why, there's some parties ain't even content with the key, but must have a guide too, or else they buttons up their pockets." It was so impossible to misunderstand the bearing of this remark that Richard burst out into a good-humored laugh; he was really pleased because the landlord's hint assured him that he was in ignorance that he had had a guide.
"I shall certainly pay my footing, Mr.Trevethick, the same as if I had had an attendant--of which, however, I should have been glad at one or two places; the wind did take my hat, and very nearly the rest of me.
But what I meant by the trouble that was taken to secure your ruins from intruders was with reference not to the door, but to the key of it.
Why, if it were a real castle, full of furniture, it could not be more effectually guarded.
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