A traveller on foot who asked for a night's lodging, had to pay twopence, a traveller on horseback a shilling; if he required wine and brandy for supper as well, still he was only charged a shilling.

Who would go to the trouble of totting up extra figures for trifles of that sort?
A carriage and four was not taxed at all, those who came in it paid what they chose.

If anybody did not ask what he had to pay but simply shook hands and went on his way, mine host simply wished him a happy journey and never said a word about his account.
For Makkabesku was a proud man in his way and thought a great deal of his gentility.

He expected to be addressed as "Domnule!"[32] and was delighted when his guests took notice of his coat of arms hanging up in the guest chamber,--to-wit, a black bear with three darts in its heel--and enquired as to its meaning; when he would explain that that black bear with the three darts which was also painted on a sheet of lead and swung backwards and forwards in front of the house between two iron rods was not a sign-board, but his family crest.
[Footnote 32: Sir.] Late one afternoon Baron Leonard Hatszegi might have been seen on foot crossing the bridge which led to the Mikalai _csarda_, and entering its courtyard.

He came on foot with a small box under his arm and his double-barrelled gun across his shoulder.