Excerpt from Chapter II of the novel 'The Three Jolly Tiddlekins' by Vlad Mușatescu
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'Have you asked for the check? Perfect... Three coffees, fifteen lei...'
'Well, there's only two of us!' I tried to determine him to come into contact with reality.
'No way! I see three, therefore you are three...'
Aunt Ralița, wanting to put an end to it, paid the amount, fearing not to start a quarrel with the drunkards, and turned to leave. Still, having a golden heart, she asked the maitre d'hotel:
'How will you get home, dear, being so exhausted, if I may say so?'
"I've got a car, ma'm! Utomobile, presonal proprety...'
'Good for you! But today, I think it's better if you took the bus!' tanti Ralița advised him.
'No can do! Impossibel, as the English would say...It doesn't fit into the garage!' said the maitre d'hotel, wiggling like a mast in the storm.
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