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'Men are softer-hearted than women, murmured Babet. 'He spoke very well, all the same, remarked La Rousse. 'Those priests think of a lot of things that wouldn't occur to anybody else. 'Hush! cried La Teuse, who was already making ready to extinguish the candles. But Abbe Mouret still stammered on, trying to utter a few more sentences.
"I understand all," I continued. "You are right, I must work to win Babet. But you will see how courageous I shall be. Ah! how good you are, my uncle Lazare, and how well you speak! I understand what the spring says: I, also, will have a powerful summer and an autumn of abundance.
At daylight on the 23rd, he fell in with a French squadron off the Isle of Bass; the Engageante, Pomone, and Resolue, frigates; and the Babet, 22-gun corvette. The enemy, who were standing to the north-west, made sail on perceiving the British squadron; the Commodore in l'Engageante being a-head, then Resolue, Pomone, and Babet.
"Oh! how sound uncle Lazare must be sleeping!" I thought. And I extended myself at full length on the moss. The sun struck gentle heat into my back, whilst my breast, buried in the grass, was quite cool. Have you never examined the turf, at close quarters, with your eyes on the blades of grass? Whilst I was waiting for Babet, I pried indiscreetly into a tuft which was really a whole world.
It was amidst the calm of this horizon, amidst the exhalations of the vat and the joys attendant upon labour and reproduction, that we three talked together, Babet, uncle Lazare, and myself, whilst gazing at the dear little new-born babe. "Uncle Lazare," said Babet, "what name will you give the child?" "Jean's mother was named Jacqueline," answered my uncle. "I shall call the child Jacques."
"Yes; but I know she never forgets us," said Victoire; "and she loves so much to see us all happy together, that I am sure it must be something very extraordinary that detains her." Babet laughed at Victoire's fears; but presently even she began to grow impatient; for they waited long after sunset, expecting every moment that Madame de Fleury would arrive.
"That officer must have been to Beaumanoir, and is bringing the young seigneur back to town," remarked Jean, puffing out a long thread of smoke from his lips. "Well, it must be something better than smoke, Jean!" Babet coughed: she never liked the pipe "The young chevalier is always one of the last to give up when they have one of their three days drinking bouts up at the Chateau.
"The Cure may call the Bourgeois what he likes," replied Babet, "but there is not another Christian in the city if the good Bourgeois be not one; and next the Church there is not a house in Quebec better known or better liked by all the habitans, than the Golden Dog; and such bargains too, as one gets there!" "Ay, Babet! a good bargain settles many a knotty point with a woman."
I hope the late emperor did not deprive him of it, as it was well deserved by this genius and his knowledge of literature. At the play Marcoline did nothing but chatter with Babet Rangoni, who wanted me to bring the fair Venetian to see her, but I had my own reasons for not doing so.
"Well, I am glad you did not tell the Seigneur de Repentigny that she had crossed the ferry and gone not to look for him, I'll be bound! I will tell you something by and by, Jean, if you will come in and eat your dinner; I have something you like." "What is it, Babet?" Jean was, after all, more curious about his dinner than about the fair lady.
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