He took no notice of the poor vagabonds, but hastily demanded a change of clothes, as his own were soaking, and was amazed to see Henrietta handling her knife and fork so well; it was the first time on the whole journey that she had eaten with appetite.

Henrietta said that this peasant roast suited her taste.
"And now, Dame Kardos, will you put the ladies up for the night ?" said Hatszegi to the woman of the _csarda_.
"Certainly," returned the worthy woman, "I have feather mattresses enough and bedsteads enough for as many guests of quality as your lordship likes.

This bed will be my lord baron's and this my lady's, and this the lady attendant's!" "Not so quick, not so quick! I shall not lie here." "Not lie here ?" cried this child of the _puszta_.

"Why, pray ?" "Oh! I'll find some place or other in the tap-room outside." "It's a way great folks have, I suppose," murmured Dame Kardos, shrugging her shoulders, "but I never saw or heard the likes of it before." "But, my lord," lisped Clementina, greatly agitated, "won't those wild vagabonds outside disturb you ?" "Me ?" exclaimed Hatszegi, "how the devil can they disturb _me_ ?" "They are such wicked men, surely ?" "I don't care what sort of men they are." And with that he went out with the utmost _sang froid_; nay, as Clementina herself noticed, he drew forth his pocket pistols and left them behind him on the table.
"His lordship has no need to fear such men," the landlady reassured the ladies, "for he can talk to them in their own lingo." Henrietta did not understand.

Did robbers then speak a dialect peculiar to themselves?
She became quite curious to hear how Hatszegi would speak to the robbers in their own language.
But the landlady knew exactly what to do.