Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 132: what you’re looking at

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124 ALFRED DE ROSANN. into this wood, De Rosann, and we shall not only be secure against the visits of Gendarmes, but shall also find wherewith to satisfy the cravings of” our ap- petites; for to tell you the truth, my morning’s s repast has long since ceased, to allay a certain hunger which takes us at all times.’ “ For my part,” "aifities Alfred, leaping from the grass, ‘1 have before made you acquainted with the forlorn state of my pocket. Were we in some town of repute, I could readily draw a bill upon a friend in Paris, which would not be dishonoured.’’ “ Yes, my dear fellow,’’ said Belle-Rose, with his usual coolness; “ but in the midst of this wood your credit is of as much utility to us as a bank-note would have been to Noah in his ark.”’ ‘YT merely ventured an observation,”’ cried De Ro- sann somewhat petulantly. ‘‘ And a deuced foolish one it was, too, so far as it regards the present moment,’”? remarked Belle-Rose. “ Sir—I do not understand—’’ began De Rosann, offended at his companion’s levity. «“ What! are we going to quarrel at an instant when you require my services to procure you a luncheon!’’ exclaimed Belle-Rose with the most ineffable good humour, while Alfred reddened at the idea of his ridiculous wrath. ‘Come, my good fellow; we will just place another league between us and the town, and then talk of eating, or fighting, or any other mat- ter you choose.”’ This little dispute, if it can be so called, made De Rosann feel that in the midst of danger and trouble Belle-Rose was superior to himself; that the adven- turer, with his good humour, his constitutional galety, and his undoubted courage, was better adapted to en- counter adversity, and to sarmount the difficulties that presented themselves in his way, than the fine gentleman endowed with honourable feelings and sentiments of delicacy, jealous of his reputation, and prompt to resent a joke when too familiar; and he was obliged to confess in his own mind that the COMMICLOOOKS EO