Pull your chair up to the fire, old fellow.

Let's see, what were we saying ?" The servant appeared again at this point, and said--"Please, sir, they've got a couple of the gipsies, and want--" "Eh, what!" exclaimed the professor, jumping up.

"Why didn't you say so before?
Gipsies! Why, Prudhom, my boy, could anything be more opportune?
Show them into the library, and set a chair for the doctor.
Do you hear?
How fortunate this is! Now while I'm examining them, watch closely, and see if you do not observe the peculiar curve of the nostril I was speaking to you about as characterising the septentrional species of the tribe.

Come away, doctor!" And off trotted the man of science to his library, closely followed by the scarcely less eager dominie.
At the far end of the dimly-lighted room stood the constables, on either side of an aged couple of vagabonds.

The old man was arrayed in a long coat which nearly reached the ground, leaving only a glimpse of a stained and weather-beaten pair of pantaloons and striped parti-coloured stockings beneath.