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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... be a banquet then, if you like. Have you anything else to say?" "Nothing, nothing! One cannot tell beforehand, I suppose, how much it will cost?" "I don't know, I'm sure;... but if you are going to cavil about a few dozen marks or so, why, let it go before the court--it's all the same to us." "No, no; I didn't mean that.... I merely meant to say it will be jolly like that, of course--oh. yes.... H'm." So the matter was settled, and after a short pause they began to talk of something else. But, somehow, so far as Hellman was concerned, the conversation would not flow easily. He was very thoughtful and absent, and let his pipe, which the captain had insisted upon lighting for him, gradually go out. When he had sat there a little time, he got up, took his leave, and went out. But in the lobby he turned round again, and, standing in the doorway, begged the bailiff to come out for he had something to say to him. "I want... I mean to say I should like... this... this banquet not to cost too much money.... I am a little hardpressed for money just now... and so one might perhaps tell the hostess at the inn to send and buy their meat, fish, and milk from us, and you might also get your cook from us, and also the dishes for the feast all ready cooked;... although, I suppose, it will not be a regular banquet after all;... yes, yes." "Harkye, brother," said the bailiff, "either we'll leave the whole thing to the hostess, or if you won't hear of that, why, then let us simply go before the court, and then you will be quit of the whole thing." "No, no, by no means;... not at all.... Adieu!" "But the story must be well circulated, eh?" laughed the bailiff, as he reported this last convers...
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