" He then commanded his officers to provide me with a suitable lodging at his expense, and sent slaves to wait upon me and carry my raft and my bales to my new dwelling place.
Here we anchored, and one of the merchants, who had been very friendly to me on the way, took me ashore with him and showed me a lodging set apart for strange merchants.
" I thanked the tailor for his counsel, and said I would do whatever he advised; then, being very hungry, I gladly ate of the food he put before me, and accepted his offer of a lodging in his house.
Thereupon he gave the three apprentices a lodging below, but the merchant came up-stairs into a separate apartment.
The Lord answered, "I only ask for a night's lodging.
In the evening he came to a castle, and there he asked for a night's lodging, for at that time there were no inns.
"Do give me one night's lodging, and a little to eat and drink," said he to her, "or I shall starve.
The youth wandered on, and after some time came to a fortress where he begged for a night's lodging.
The students, even those who had board and lodging gratis, left the city.
" She used to value a lodging entirely according to its proximity to the theatre.
Sometimes she took up her night's lodging in a half-blown tulip, or in a field flower; sometimes she would slip into the church, and wrap herself in the mourning crape that hung down from the candles on the altar.
All the little griefs of the lodging and the family, and the real cares and sorrows, move with them out of the old dwelling into the new; and what gain is there for them or for us in the whole affair?
It grew dark, and as night was coming on I found a lodging in an old tower, where dwelt a watchman and an owl.
This house was inhabited by poor people, but the deepest poverty was apparent in the garret lodging in the gable.
The lights in the valley grew brighter and brighter, and more numerous, and he could see them moving to and fro, and then he understood that there must be a village in the distance; so he exerted his failing strength to reach it, and at length obtained shelter in a humble lodging.
" So Little Claus came down and told the farmer how he had lost his way and begged for a night's lodging.
