“He certainly does not occupy it, since he has not yet arrived; but, once disembarked, he will occupy it.”
“Oh! oh!”
“It is quite clear you are not acquainted with the English; they have a perfect rage for monopolizing everything.”
“That may be; but a man who has the whole of one house, is satisfied with it, and does not require two.”
“Yes, but two men?”
“Be it so; for two men, two houses, or four or six, or ten, if you like; but there are a hundred houses at Havre.”
“Yes, and all the hundred are let.”
“Impossible!”
“What an obstinate fellow you are. I tell you Buckingham has hired all the houses surrounding the one which the queen dowager of England and the princess her daughter will inhabit.”
“He is singular enough, indeed,” said De Wardes, caressing his horse’s neck.