Household Words Volume 32 (Paperback)

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. 1855 Excerpt: ...in o-71 "Heh " exclaimed the astonished Comte, "in oil--agi Esquimaux oria Tartar pray " " Mlonsieur le Ccimte, I want no ing." He had found him out. purchase of this picture 'B I havelpended on the appointed hook. set my heart upon it; I love it; I have sworn to possess it. Make it a matter of mone, and I will give you a thousand pounds for your bargain; make it a matter of dispute, and I will fight you for it to the death; make it a matter of friendship, and yield up your right, and I will embrace you as a brother, and be your debtor for the rest of my life." The Comte de Barbebiche--seeing that he had to do with an Englishman a degree, at least, more crazed than the rest of his countrymen--entered into the spirit of the matter at once, and chose the easiest means of extricating himself from a difliculty. "Milor," he exclaimed, advancing towards him, "I am charmed with ygur sentiments, our coura e, an our inte it. Take her, g Milor)i--take gyoiir Joan of Arc; 1'would not attempt to deprive you of her if she were a real esh and blood Pucelle, and my own sister." The Englishman, with a grand oath, seized the Comte's hand in both his own, and shook it heartily; then scrambling up his paraphernalia of war, spoke a hurried farewell, and disappeared down the stairs. The grey of the morning saw Milor in full evening costume, pacing the Graben with hurried steps, watching with anxious eyes the shop front where his beloved was wont to hang. He saw her carried out like a shutter from the house, and duly sus She had lost none of her charms, and he stood with arms folded upon his breast, entranced for awhile before the figure of the valiant maiden. "Herr Wechsel," said he ab...