--"_Toutt moune içitt pa ni yon soul--ça fil zagrignin, et moin pa
menm mangé! Epi laverette encò.... Main couè toutt ça ka pòté
malhè!_" (No one here has a sou!--heaps of cobwebs like that, and
nothing to eat yet; and the verette into the bargain.... I think those
things bring bad luck.)
--"Ah! you have not eaten yet!" cries Manm-Robert. "_Vini épi moin!_"
(Come with me!)
And Yzore--already feeling a little remorse for her treatment of the
spiders--murmurs apologetically as she crosses over to Manm-Robert's
little shop:--"_Moin pa tchoué yo; moin chassé yo--ké vini encò._"
(I did not kill them; I only put them out;--they will come back again.)
But long afterwards, Manm-Robert remarked to me that they never went
back....