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Ball of Fat 13
Night fell, the darkness grew deeper and deeper, and the cold made
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shiver, in spite of her plumpness. So Madame de Breville offered her her
foot-warmer, the fuel of which had been several times renewed since the morning,
and she accepted the offer at once, for her feet were icy cold. Mesdames
Carre-Lamadon and Loiseau gave theirs to the nuns.
The driver lighted his lanterns. They cast a bright gleam on a cloud of vapor
which hovered over the sweating flanks of the horses, and on the roadside snow,
which seemed to unroll as they went along in the changing light of the lamps.
All was now indistinguishable in the coach; but suddenly a movement occurred in
the corner occupied by Ball of Fat and Cornudet; and Loiseau, peering into the
gloom, fancied he saw the big, bearded democrat move hastily to one side, as if
he had received a well-directed, though noiseless, blow in the dark.
Tiny lights glimmered ahead. It was Totes. The coach had been on the road eleven
hours, which, with the three hours allotted the horses in four periods for
feeding and breathing, made fourteen. It entered the town, and stopped before
the Hotel du Commerce.
The coach door opened; a well-known noise made all the travellers start; it was
the clanging of a scabbard, on the pavement; then a voice called out something
in German.
Although the coach had come to a standstill, no one got out; it looked as if
they were afraid of being murdered the moment they left their seats. Thereupon
the driver appeared, holding in his hand one of his lanterns, which cast a
sudden glow on the interior of the coach, lighting up the double row of startled
faces, mouths agape, and eyes wide open in surprise and terror.
Beside the driver stood in the full light a German officer, a tall young man,
fair and slender, tightly encased in his uniform like a woman in her corset, his
flat shiny cap, tilted to one side of his head, making him look like an English
hotel runner. His exaggerated mustache, long and straight and tapering to a
point at either end in a single blond hair that could hardly be seen, seemed to
weigh down the corners of his mouth and give a droop to his lips.
In Alsatian French he requested the travellers to alight, saying stiffly:
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