The Room in the Dragon Volant by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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After a little search I lighted upon the very carriage of which I was in quest. A servant was locking one of the doors, for it was made with the security of lock and key. I paused near, looking at the panel of the door. "A very pretty device that red stork!" I observed, pointing to the shield on the door, "and no doubt indicates a distinguished family?" The servant looked at me for a moment, as he placed the little key in his pocket, and said with a slightly sarcastic bow and smile, "Monsieur is at liberty to conjecture." Nothing daunted, I forthwith administered that laxative which, on occasion, acts so happily upon the tongue--I mean a "tip." The servant looked at the Napoleon in his hand, and then in my face, with a sincere expression of surprise. "Monsieur is very generous!" "Not worth mentioning--who are the lady and gentleman who came here in this carriage, and whom, you may remember, I and my servant assisted today in an emergency, when their horses had come to the ground?" "They are the Count, and the young lady we call the Countess--but I know not, she may be his daughter." "Can you tell me where they live?" "Upon my honor, Monsieur, I am unable--I know not." |
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