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As she placed the soup before the guest, who changed his attitude to a

sitting one, he looked her full in the face, and his moustache went up

under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache

'Well!' said the previous speaker, 'let us coentlemen, it was because the man was acquitted

on his trial that people said at Marseilles that the devil was let

loose That was how the phrase began to circulate, and what itmore' 'How do they call hiaud, aud! To be sure'

The traveller's soup was succeeded by a dish of etables He ate all that was placed before hilass of ruarette with

his cup of coffee As he beca; and

patronised the company at the Daybreak in certain small talk at which he

assisted, as if his condition were far above his appearance

The coht have felt

their inferiority, but in any case they dispersed by degrees, and not

being replaced by other company, left their new patron in possession of

the Break of Day The landlord was clinking about in his kitchen; the