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But we are not to trouble about that: it will manage all alone. The man, however, cannot be idle. He works, and trusts to his blood, "which is healthy." In the evening, when the ward is lighted by a night-light, and I come in on tiptoe to give a last look round, I hear a voice laboriously spelling: "B-O, Bo; B-I, Bi; N-E, Ne, Bobine." It is Mehay, learning to read before going to bed.
"The police? I don't like the police!" interrupted her brother. "Who does?" ejaculated Bobinette. "Lots of people come to her house. I go to all the dinners, all the parties!" "Ah, then, you'll foot the bill, Bobine, if you have such a rich situation?" "I will pay, Geoffrey," said Bobinette: "This old lady, I think."... Bobinette stopped.
"Your sister?" "Oh, she's a sharp one!... She's studied, too!... She did the bandages at Lariboise!... She had the sous!... I told her my troubles!... She let me have the dibs, so I could hang on!" "Until you got a billet at The Big Tun?" "No!... Bobine said: 'Here's gold, little brother! It's all I have ... don't come for more!... You must find a way out of the mess!" "And you did?... How?"
We will meet at The Crying Calf, it is safe there!" "Sit you down here, little Bobine!" suggested Hogshead Geoffrey.... "And now, what will you take?" Bobinette ordered a gooseberry syrup. "Quite the lady's drink," remarked mine host of the wine-shop with a humorous air.
After all, it was only to pass the time she had come. "Keep quiet, Geoffrey," she said: "I do not know the old boy, and you deceive yourself if you think he annoys me!... Besides, my dear Geoffrey, I must be off!" "Be off!... Whatever's come to you, Bobine?" "I have business on hand elsewhere.... And now that I know you are quite well, Geoffrey, I shall continue my walk."
"As long as you pay up, Bobine, I've nothing to say; but, all the same, you have queer ideas.... You bring me here to keep an appointment, and then, we're not five minutes together, when up you get on the trot again!" Bobinette caught her brother's huge fist in a quick handshake, made for the door of The Crying Calf, turned out of rue Monge at a slow pace, convinced that Vagualame would join her.
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