Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 182: what you’re looking at

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174 ALFRED DE ROSANN. —they took me for a real Gendarme—my trousers escaped their notice—and the front door. was imme- diately thrown open to afford’ me egress.”’ “Bravo?” cried Belle-Rose, unable to contain his admiration: “ give me your hand, Champignon; I did not think you capable, my brave fellow, of so daring adeed. ’T was excellent—delicious!’’ «Ah! ah!”? chuckled the gastronomer; “we do things well, when we have a mind, eh?r”’ ‘You are a man of wonderful parts!” ‘¢ My name will yet be handed down to posterity,” eried Champignon, delighted with the adulation of Belle-Rose. ‘“ Only wait till my cotelettes a la qua- drilie get into vogue, and Europe shall talk of me.’ “The journals mention your name already,”’ said Pierre. “Indeed! you do not mean what you say, my dear, kind, good Belle-Rose. Oh! if I knew the manner in which they speak of me! of course it 1s to praise my gastronomical knowledge. But which journal is it that does me so much honour!”’ inquired the de- lighted Champignon. “Most likely the 2rmoricain de Brest,’’ answered Belle-Rose drily. “Ts it possible that my fame could have followed me from Paris?’’ ‘“ Not that I know of,’ replied Pierre; “ neither have I seen the Brest newspaper; but you may rely upon one thing—which is, that you, myself, and De Ro- sann, with our full descriptions, have already figured as fugitive convicts amongst its advertising columns,”’ “ And that is the way my name has been brought before the public, then,’ said Champignon ina melan- choly tone of voice. . “ Eixactly,’’ returned Belle-Rose with an emphasis on his laconic answer, that increased the disappoint- , mien of the ex-vestaurateur. “ But pray continue your interesting narrative,’ exclaimed De Rosann; “ you left off in the most enter- taining part: I am dying to hear how you escaped from the town in your Gendarme’s cloak and cocked hat.”’ Connieoookks. Conn