Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 83: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

RE —— ALFRED DE ROSANN. 75 Felicité,’’ continued the convict, “ got the roast fowls from her—and ate them—”’ “You have eaten two roast fowls to your own share!”’ thundered the irritated landlady, while the Gendarmes, who held her, did not attempt to restrain their laughter. “TI and that gentleman,’ returned Belle-Rose, pointing to Champignon, who was more thunder- struck at this second than at the first accusation thus brought against him within a quarter of an hour. “If that be the case, my good woman, it is useless to grumble,” said a Gendarme: ‘the English have a proverb to the effect ‘that the least said, the soonest mended.’ ”? © Phat’s no consolation for the loss of my fowls,’? muttered the hag, as the chain moved out of the kitchen, attended by the guard. “ Good dav, dear sister,’’ cried Belle-Rose with a laugh: “and never forget brother Thomas. Felicite’s kindness has saved me the trouble of changing a Na- poleon,”’ The wrathful landlady’s response was wafted to the winds of heaven, unheard, unrecked; and Belle- Rose amused his companions with a recital of the stratagem by which he procured the dainties that had caused so much disturbance. ‘The Gendarmes cared - but little for these kinds of freaks on the part of their prisoners; particularly as they were so frequent as to repel almost the possibility of entirely suppressing them. De Rosann ventured a forced laugh at the low cheat; and Champignon made a remark expressive of his wonder that Belle-Rose did not ask Felicite for water-cresses to serveup with the fowl: he moreover added that he had a slight recollection of having read, in his youth, a tale about a country where there were no days, but all nights, as the book itself was called Arabian Nights—Arabia being a tract of land border- ing on Poland—in which tale there was mention made of a wonderful lamp, and a man’s passing him- self off as a boy’s uncle, or something of the kind: he COmmicooolks (GO)