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The Companions of Jehu

CHAPTER XXVII
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It should reach Genoa to-day, duodi, and leave to-morrow, tridi, by the diligence from Geneva to Bourg; so that, by leaving this very night, by the day after to-morrow, quintide, you can, my dear sons of Israel, meet the treasure of messires the bears between Dijon and Troyes, near Bar-sur-Seine or Chatillon.

What say you ?" "By heavens!" cried Morgan, "we say that there seems to be no room for argument left; we say we should never have permitted ourselves to touch the money of their Highnesses the bears of Berne so long as it remained in their coffers; but as it has changed hands once, I see no objection to its doing so a second time.

Only how are we to start ?" "Haven't you a post-chaise ?" "Yes, it's here in the coach-house." "Haven't you horses to get you to the next stage ?" "They are in the stable." "Haven't you each your passports." "We have each four." "Well, then ?" "Well, we can't stop the diligence in a post-chaise.

We don't put ourselves to too much inconvenience, but we don't take our ease in that way." "Well, and why not ?" asked Montbar; "it would be original.

I can't see why, if sailors board from one vessel to another, we couldn't board a diligence from a post-chaise.


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