Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 179: what you’re looking at

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ALFRED DE ROSANN. 171 selves on the hay, and attend to adventures which can be no otherwise than amusing.”’ ‘‘As for adventures,” cried Champignon, “ God knows Ihave passed through enough of them in a little space of time ; and if you will promise not to interrupt me, for I cannot bear interruptions, your eurlosity shall be immediately gratified.” “Do not be alarmed on that head,” answered Belle- Rose ; “I myself am attention personified, and De Rosann will readily give the assurance you require ;— so no more nonsense, and commence.’ “TY always made it a rule in my kitchen’ ’__began Champignon, assuming an important air. ‘‘ or God’s sake,’’ cried Belle-Rose, “ let alone your kitchen during a short half hour, and tell us how you effected your escape from Brest.” ‘ Notwithstanding your promises, you interrupted me before I had completed ten words,” said the gas- tronomer sulkily. ‘ Because your prelude seemed to menance a long culinary dissertation,” returned Belle-Rose ; “ and much as I respect your talents in that line, I, do not see the necessity of beginning a history of adventures with a paragraph from the cookery-book.” «Be so kind as to suffer me to proceed in my own way,” persisted Champignon, “ or to hold my tongue at once and for all. I was saying that I made it an invariable rule in my kitchen, at the Cadran Rouge, — which, as you may recollect, was set up in opposition to the ‘monopoly so unjustly ‘maintained by the Cadran Bleu—” ‘Tn the name of God, what has that to do with your flight from the galleys?” ejaculated Belle- Rose, impatiently. “Tt has a great deal to do with my history,” re- turned Champignon, annoyed at being interrupted a second time. “ Not if you commence from the 22d of May, 1830, the day of Francois’ execution, of Edouard’s murder, and of our escape,”’ said Belle-Rose. “ Only permit me to complete my first sentence COMICIDOOKS (C@ 5