“Monsieur will dine well tonight and give my best regards to your dear wife. Good day to you.”
“How easy was that, Baudet! The boar cost us nothing so whatever I extracted from the toff is pure profit.” Smiling broadly, he withdrew a small leather skin from under his apron, drank and passed it over. “Best brandy to protect us from the cold and to celebrate our first deal of the day.”
“He made it all look so simple with his gift of the gab and, as he said, it was an honest transaction.”
“He made it all look so simple with his gift of the gab and, as he said, it was an honest transaction.”Soon after, a lady in a long gown, shawl, and hands thrust into a fur muff, nodded first to the plump maidservant by her side, then towards the stall. It seemed any form of conventional language between
