'
'But if you look you will find these bars have been put here very recently:
the screws and marks are quite new.'
'_Eendeed!_' ejaculated Madame, with prolonged emphasis, in precisely the
same consternation. 'Why, my dear, they told a me down stair what I have
tell a you, when I ask the reason! Late a me see.'
And Madame mounted on a chair, and made her scrutiny with much curiosity,
but could not agree with me as to the very recent date of the carpentry.
There is nothing, I think, so exasperating as that sort of falsehood which
affects not to see what is quite palpable.
'Do you mean to say, Madame, that you really think those chisellings and
screws are forty years old?'
'How can I tell, cheaile? What does signify whether it is forty or only
fourteen years? Bah! we av other theeng to theenk about. Those villain men!
I am glad to see bar and bolt, and lock and key, at least, to our room, to
keep soche faylows out!'
At that moment a knock came to the door, and Madame's nasal 'in moment'
answered promptly, and she opened the door, stealthily popping out her
head.
'Oh, that is all right; go you long, no ting more, go way.
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