[In the Reign of Terror by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookIn the Reign of Terror CHAPTER V 30/31
I should like to look in sometimes to see that all is well.
You could mention to your neighbours that I travelled up with the same waggon with your nieces. "I will do that willingly," the old woman said; "but first, my dears, you must have some rest; come in here." And she led the way to the next room.
"There is a bed for you, Mademoiselle Marie, and one for the two young ones.
The room is not like what you are accustomed to, but I dared not buy finer things, though I had plenty of money from your mother to have furnished the rooms like a palace; but you see it would have seemed strange to my neighbours; but, at least, everything is clean and sweet." Leaving the girls, who were worn out with weariness and anxiety, to sleep, she rejoined Harry. "Now, monsieur, I will do your business.
It is a comfort to me to feel that some one will be near of whom I can ask advice, for it is a terrible responsibility for an old woman in such dreadful times as these, when it seems to me that everyone has gone mad at once. What sort of a chamber do you want ?" "Quite a small one," Harry answered, "just such a chamber as a young clerk on the look-out for employment and with his pocket very slenderly lined, would desire." "I know just such a one," the old woman said.
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