"Nothing! Why, what is all this?"
"All this is ordered."
"By whom?"
"By the carriers."
"How many are there of them?"
"Twelve."
"There is enough food here for twenty."
The man sat down again, and said without raising his voice,—
"I am at an inn, I am hungry, and so shall remain."
The landlord then stooped down, and whispered with an accent which made him start, "Be off with you!"