All that was left of her—and the savour of a bitter memory—rosemary for remembrance!
CHAPTER XXVII
Such a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour
That ballad-makers cannot be able to express it.
—A Winter's Tale V. 2.
It was about an hour later that a hired coach brought three English gentlemen to the small inn at St. Denis.
M. Blond was much perturbed. He was not accustomed to foreigners at any time and he held the English theoretically in abhorrence, and now here were four of these milors actually under his roof at one and the same time.
The three who had last arrived in the coach from Paris carried matters off in a very high-handed fashion and seemed ready to throw money about in a manner which was highly satisfactory to the bedraggled and seedy married couple who—besides the landlord and his spouse—formed the sum total of the personnel at the Sign of "Three Archangels" in St. Denis.