"Call in the families," said the
mayor to the clerk whose business it was to read aloud the certificates.
My dear
mayor, who is the man that has corrupted thy Julie?'
After six page-boys had blown on shining trumpets to make the people stop talking, the Doctor came out on to the steps and the
Mayor spoke.
At home the small peasant gradually launched out; he built a beautiful house, and the peasants said: 'The small peasant has certainly been to the place where golden snow falls, and people carry the gold home in shovels.' Then the small peasant was brought before the
mayor, and bidden to say from whence his wealth came.
'I!' said the Lord
Mayor, most emphatically: 'Certainly not.'
"You see in me the
mayor and chief magistrate of the ancient and powerful town of Lepe.
The
mayor himself could not write, and the deputy-mayor was a small farmer, who lived beyond the limits of the Commune.
'Whiffin, proclaim silence,' said the
mayor, with an air of pomp befitting his lofty station.
"Sir," replied the
mayor. "I know very well that during the last four or five years misfortune has seemed to pursue M.
"I'll tell you what, Wrench, this is beyond a joke," said the
Mayor, who of late had had to rebuke offenders with an official air, and how broadened himself by putting his thumbs in his armholes.-- "To let fever get unawares into a house like this.
"How shabby indeed!" cried the Town Councillors, who always agreed with the
Mayor; and they went up to look at it.
Mayor?' says the Dean, with a nod of good-natured recognition of his Fetch.