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The Lucky Inheritance.
and put it to me to that effect . I repeated my desire respecting the public conveyance . " There is no diligence , " said she . " No diligence ! " I exclaimed , in astonishment . "None , " was her brief reply . " Howthen" I asked" do you get there ?"
, , , " We never get there , " she ansAvered ; " nobody Avants to go . " " But I do , " I retorted ; " are there no means of conveyance ?" She turned away from me , and said some words in the charming dialect of the country ( which sounded like breaking stones on the high road ) to a man in a blue night-cap , Avho was smoking a long pipe and listening to a song in which there Avere
a great many k ' s . He paid no attention to what she said until she punched him sharply in the ribs with her knuckles , but as soon as he had compassed her meaning he laid doAvn his pipe and stared me full in the face for nearly a minute . When he had withdraAvn his gaze he condescended to reply to the stout lady , Avho was his Avife , he being the proprietor of " The Successful Coaster . " As he spoke in Breton his speech had to be
translated . Its meaning was that if somebody , Avhom he called " Jannik , " happened to bo at St . Nazaire , I might have a chance of getting over to Guerande , but he didn't know ; it Avasn ' t his business to send travellers away ; people who came to St . Nazaire ought to go back the way they came , —that is to say , in a boat of some sort ; he saAv no good in any other kind of
travelling . These opinions of her husband were as faithfully interpreted by his helpmate as the fact respecting Jannik , who suddenly became a person of much interest in my situation , and I clung to his name as to my sheet-anchor . Less solicitous than her husband for the eternal retention of travellers , or perhaps , of a more compassionate nature , she added , of her
OAvn accord , that she would try and find out if Jannik were in the town ; and while the messenger was gone on the errand I elicited from her that the individual whose presence , under the circumstances , was so important , was a carrier Avho drove a patache , Avhich , besides being laden with goods for the surrounding toAvns and villages , carried the mail when anybody at St . Nazaire wanted , which Avas very seldom , to correspond Avith the interior , and also afforded accommodation , after its kind , to stray passengers like myself .
In about half an hour a man of middle age , wearing high gaiters , a long coat that almost trailed on the ground , and a very broad leafed hat , made his appearance , who proved to be the identical Jannik . He confessed to a cargo , and said he had been thinking of setting off for the last three or four days
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The Lucky Inheritance.
and put it to me to that effect . I repeated my desire respecting the public conveyance . " There is no diligence , " said she . " No diligence ! " I exclaimed , in astonishment . "None , " was her brief reply . " Howthen" I asked" do you get there ?"
, , , " We never get there , " she ansAvered ; " nobody Avants to go . " " But I do , " I retorted ; " are there no means of conveyance ?" She turned away from me , and said some words in the charming dialect of the country ( which sounded like breaking stones on the high road ) to a man in a blue night-cap , Avho was smoking a long pipe and listening to a song in which there Avere
a great many k ' s . He paid no attention to what she said until she punched him sharply in the ribs with her knuckles , but as soon as he had compassed her meaning he laid doAvn his pipe and stared me full in the face for nearly a minute . When he had withdraAvn his gaze he condescended to reply to the stout lady , Avho was his Avife , he being the proprietor of " The Successful Coaster . " As he spoke in Breton his speech had to be
translated . Its meaning was that if somebody , Avhom he called " Jannik , " happened to bo at St . Nazaire , I might have a chance of getting over to Guerande , but he didn't know ; it Avasn ' t his business to send travellers away ; people who came to St . Nazaire ought to go back the way they came , —that is to say , in a boat of some sort ; he saAv no good in any other kind of
travelling . These opinions of her husband were as faithfully interpreted by his helpmate as the fact respecting Jannik , who suddenly became a person of much interest in my situation , and I clung to his name as to my sheet-anchor . Less solicitous than her husband for the eternal retention of travellers , or perhaps , of a more compassionate nature , she added , of her
OAvn accord , that she would try and find out if Jannik were in the town ; and while the messenger was gone on the errand I elicited from her that the individual whose presence , under the circumstances , was so important , was a carrier Avho drove a patache , Avhich , besides being laden with goods for the surrounding toAvns and villages , carried the mail when anybody at St . Nazaire wanted , which Avas very seldom , to correspond Avith the interior , and also afforded accommodation , after its kind , to stray passengers like myself .
In about half an hour a man of middle age , wearing high gaiters , a long coat that almost trailed on the ground , and a very broad leafed hat , made his appearance , who proved to be the identical Jannik . He confessed to a cargo , and said he had been thinking of setting off for the last three or four days