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She did not know, with an indifferent shrug of
her shoulders.
If we could not sleep in the Etoile, could we
eat in it ?
“No, that is altogether impossible,” and she
turned her back upon us and went into the house.
—I could have cried in my disappointment.
The landlady of the Grand Cerf received us with
smiles.--
Had we both travelled on that one little velo-
cipede ?
—But J- was in no humour for compli-
ments.-—
Could she give us a room ?
There was not one in the house, she said; these
autumn manoeuvres had brought so many people
to town. She had just that moment given up
hers to two gentlemen who had telegraphed that
they would arrive by a late train, and she and
her daughter must spend the night in a friend’s
house.
—She must have seen the despair in our eyes,
for, before we had time to speak, she added, that
she would send to a neighbour’s to see what could
be done for us there.
Her messenger, however, came back to say there
was not one room to spare. But suddenly, with
a
She did not know, with an indifferent shrug of
her shoulders.
If we could not sleep in the Etoile, could we
eat in it ?
“No, that is altogether impossible,” and she
turned her back upon us and went into the house.
—I could have cried in my disappointment.
The landlady of the Grand Cerf received us with
smiles.--
Had we both travelled on that one little velo-
cipede ?
—But J- was in no humour for compli-
ments.-—
Could she give us a room ?
There was not one in the house, she said; these
autumn manoeuvres had brought so many people
to town. She had just that moment given up
hers to two gentlemen who had telegraphed that
they would arrive by a late train, and she and
her daughter must spend the night in a friend’s
house.
—She must have seen the despair in our eyes,
for, before we had time to speak, she added, that
she would send to a neighbour’s to see what could
be done for us there.
Her messenger, however, came back to say there
was not one room to spare. But suddenly, with
a