Little Dorrit Vol.1 f.014 recto
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Little Dorrit Vol.1 f.014 rectoThe jailer shrugged his shoulders. “Lady of mine! Am I to lie here all my life, my father?” “What do I know!” He seemed to glance “Adieu, my birds!” said the keeper of the prison, taking his “Adieu, my birds!” the pretty child repeated. Her “Who passes by this road so late? "Compagnon de la Majolaine "Who passes by this road so late? "always gay!” That John Baptist felt it a point of honour to reply at the grate, and in good time and tune, though a little hoarsely: “Of all the king’s knights “tis the flower, Compagnon de la Majolaine! Of all the king’s knights “tis the flower, Always gay!” Which accompanied them so far down the few steep stairs, that the prison-keeper had to stop at last for his little daughter to hear the song out, and repeat the Refrain while they were yet in sight. Then the child’s head disappeared, and the prison-keeper’s head disappeared, but the little voice prolonged the strain until the door clashed. Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the echoes were the weaker for imprisonment, and seemed to lag), reminded him with a push of his foot that he had better resume his own darker place. The little man sat down again upon the pavement with the negligent ease of one who was thoroughly accustomed to pavements; and placing three hunks of coarse bread before himself, and falling to upon a fourth, began contentedly to work his way through them as if to clear them off were a sort of game. Perhaps he glanced at the Lyons sausage, and perhaps he glanced at the veal in savoury jelly, but they were not there long, to make his mouth water; Monsieur Rigaud soon dispatched them, in spite of the president and tribunal, and proceeded to suck his fingers as clean as he could, and to wipe them on his vine leaves. Then, as he paused in his drink to contemplate his fellow-prisoner, his moustache went up, and his nose came down. “How do you find the bread?” “A little dry, but I have my old sauce here,” returned John Baptist, holding up his knife. “How sauce?” “I can cut my bread so—like a melon. Or so—like an omelette. Or so—like a fried fish. Or so—like Lyons sausage,” said John Baptist, demonstrating the various cuts on the bread he held, and soberly chewing what he had in his mouth. | Little Dorrit Vol.1 f.014 rectoThe jailer shrugged his shoulders. “Lady of mine! Am I to lie here all my life, my father?” “What do I know!” He seemed to glance “Adieu, my birds!” said the keeper of the prison, taking his “Adieu, my birds!” the pretty child repeated. Her “Who passes by this road so late? "Compagnon de la Majolaine "Who passes by this road so late? "always gay!” That John Baptist felt it a point of honour to reply at the grate, and in good time and tune, though a little hoarsely: “Of all the king’s knights “tis the flower, Compagnon de la Majolaine! Of all the king’s knights “tis the flower, Always gay!” Which accompanied them so far down the few steep stairs, that the prison-keeper had to stop at last for his little daughter to hear the song out, and repeat the Refrain while they were yet in sight. Then the child’s head disappeared, and the prison-keeper’s head disappeared, but the little voice prolonged the strain until the door clashed. Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the echoes were the weaker for imprisonment, and seemed to lag), reminded him with a push of his foot that he had better resume his own darker place. The little man sat down again upon the pavement with the negligent ease of one who was thoroughly accustomed to pavements; and placing three hunks of coarse bread before himself, and falling to upon a fourth, began contentedly to work his way through them as if to clear them off were a sort of game. Perhaps he glanced at the Lyons sausage, and perhaps he glanced at the veal in savoury jelly, but they were not there long, to make his mouth water; Monsieur Rigaud soon dispatched them, in spite of the president and tribunal, and proceeded to suck his fingers as clean as he could, and to wipe them on his vine leaves. Then, as he paused in his drink to contemplate his fellow-prisoner, his moustache went up, and his nose came down. “How do you find the bread?” “A little dry, but I have my old sauce here,” returned John Baptist, holding up his knife. “How sauce?” “I can cut my bread so—like a melon. Or so—like an omelette. Or so—like a fried fish. Or so—like Lyons sausage,” said John Baptist, demonstrating the various cuts on the bread he held, and soberly chewing what he had in his mouth. |