7/14 He'll not let a poor creature eat a morsel of bread on the grass his grass!" "Does he often come here ?" "Too often. But I've made him understand that his face doesn't please me, and, for a month past, he hasn't been here. The Donjon Inn has never existed for him!--he hasn't had time!--been too much engaged in paying court to the landlady of the Three Lilies at Saint-Michel. A bad fellow!--There isn't an honest man who can bear him. Why, the concierges of the chateau would turn their eyes away from a picture of him!" "The concierges of the chateau are honest people, then ?" "Yes, they are, as true as my name's Mathieu, monsieur. |