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Santerre. *
" Ah ! I sleep very lightly , and I take little time to dress . For the number who might arrive I do not care a rush ; only let them come and warm themselves here , I should be curious to know the price the devil would give for their skins after the affair was over . " All laughed heartily at this sally , and the gens d ' amies ,
who had been plentifully regaled , did not laugh less than the others ; they then bade us farewell , and , finding it was growing late , I followed their example . I should not have preserved the least recollection of what I have just related , since I left the country a few days subsequent to the officers' visit to Pierre Renard , had I not , after the absence of a year , been recalled to Bemis by pressing business .
CHAPTER II . I MUST here observe the singular impression that was made upon me , when I went to the Police office of the Seine , in order to procure my passport , the day before my departure for Picardy . This feeling was excited by my meeting with an
individual whom , at first , I did not recognise , but whom I was certain I had met somewhere , but could not remember upon what occasion . Taxing my memory , many things recurred to my mind . The man ' s face exactly resembled that of the waiter of the inn at Deniecourt , the same fellow whose strange manner towards his charming mistress had attracted my attention . I
involuntarily started at this strange coincidence ; but reflecting on the superior style of this person ' s dress , and the decoration which ornamented his buttonhole , I * concluded that the striking likeness to Michel , the name of the brute which then recurred to my memory , must exist only in my imaginationand I came to the conclusion that the
resem-, blance was really not so striking as it first appeared , or that if it did exist , perhaps he was one of that person ' s brothers , the several members of a familynot always occupying the same rank in society . This idea nevertheless haunted me the whole of the afternoon , and it was not until the next day , that I turned my thoughts to my old companions in Picard whither I
y , was hastening . On arriving there , I determined at once to seek news of Rosa and her father ; the latter I should doubtless find a happy wife . I rightly judged that my former landlord would be the most likely person to satisfy my curiosity , and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Santerre. *
" Ah ! I sleep very lightly , and I take little time to dress . For the number who might arrive I do not care a rush ; only let them come and warm themselves here , I should be curious to know the price the devil would give for their skins after the affair was over . " All laughed heartily at this sally , and the gens d ' amies ,
who had been plentifully regaled , did not laugh less than the others ; they then bade us farewell , and , finding it was growing late , I followed their example . I should not have preserved the least recollection of what I have just related , since I left the country a few days subsequent to the officers' visit to Pierre Renard , had I not , after the absence of a year , been recalled to Bemis by pressing business .
CHAPTER II . I MUST here observe the singular impression that was made upon me , when I went to the Police office of the Seine , in order to procure my passport , the day before my departure for Picardy . This feeling was excited by my meeting with an
individual whom , at first , I did not recognise , but whom I was certain I had met somewhere , but could not remember upon what occasion . Taxing my memory , many things recurred to my mind . The man ' s face exactly resembled that of the waiter of the inn at Deniecourt , the same fellow whose strange manner towards his charming mistress had attracted my attention . I
involuntarily started at this strange coincidence ; but reflecting on the superior style of this person ' s dress , and the decoration which ornamented his buttonhole , I * concluded that the striking likeness to Michel , the name of the brute which then recurred to my memory , must exist only in my imaginationand I came to the conclusion that the
resem-, blance was really not so striking as it first appeared , or that if it did exist , perhaps he was one of that person ' s brothers , the several members of a familynot always occupying the same rank in society . This idea nevertheless haunted me the whole of the afternoon , and it was not until the next day , that I turned my thoughts to my old companions in Picard whither I
y , was hastening . On arriving there , I determined at once to seek news of Rosa and her father ; the latter I should doubtless find a happy wife . I rightly judged that my former landlord would be the most likely person to satisfy my curiosity , and