"Here—drink—"
"Your health, good mother and sweet girl; to the health of you all—"
And clicking his tongue against the roof of his mouth: "This is the best hydromel I ever tasted. A cordial hospitality renders the best of potions still better."
"Do you come from afar, gay stroller?"
"Do you mean since I started this morning or since the beginning of my journey?"
"Yes, since the beginning of your journey."
"It is now two months since I departed from Paris."
"From the city of Paris?"
"Does that surprise you, good old man?"
"What! Cross half Gaul in such times as these, when the cursed Franks overrun the country?"