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Citizen Rateau, if he thought about the matter at all, must indeed have been vastly surprised at the unwonted amiability or indifference of sergeant Ribot, who was in command at the gate of Gentilly.
She would marry again, sell her boarding-house, give her hand to this fine flower of citizenship, become a lady of consequence in the quarter, and ask for subscriptions for charitable purposes; she would make little Sunday excursions to Choisy, Soissy, Gentilly; she would have a box at the theatre when she liked, instead of waiting for the author's tickets that one of her boarders sometimes gave her, in July; the whole Eldorado of a little Parisian household rose up before Mme.
"His salary is twelve thousand francs, and he has the three hundred thousand Lucien de Rubempre left him, also the proceeds of a manufactory of varnished leather which he started at Gentilly; it pays him a large profit.
These labours are not sufficient for his apostolic zeal; he betakes himself to the house of the Jesuit Fathers at Laprairie, then to their Indian Mission at the Sault St. Louis, finally to the parish of St. François de Sales, in the Ile Jésus. Descending the St. Lawrence River, he sojourns successively at Longueuil, at Varennes, at Lavaltrie, at Nicolet, at Bécancourt, at Gentilly, at Ste.
He turned; it was one of his old pupils, who had recently become a physician in the suburb of Gentilly. "What is it?" asked Saniel. "I want to ask you to come and assist me in a curious case of spasms, where your intervention may be decisive." "Where?" "At the Maison-Blanche, a poor woman. What day could you give me?" "Is it urgent?" "Yes." "In that case I will go at once.
"No, he cannot," rejoined Chauvelin dryly. "Though I was not specially thinking of Rateau or of diamonds when I started to come hither. I did send a general order forbidding any person on foot or horseback to enter or leave Paris by any of the southern gates. That order will serve us well now. Are you riding?" "Yes. I left my horse at the tavern just outside Gentilly.
"It is, of course, too late to do anything now," he said finally, after he had mastered every detail of the man's adventures in the Ruelle du Paradis; "but get together half a dozen men upon whom you can rely, and by six o'clock in the morning, or even five, we'll be on our way to Gentilly.
He turned; it was one of his old pupils, who had recently become a physician in the suburb of Gentilly. "What is it?" asked Saniel. "I want to ask you to come and assist me in a curious case of spasms, where your intervention may be decisive." "Where?" "At the Maison-Blanche, a poor woman. What day could you give me?" "Is it urgent?" "Yes." "In that case I will go at once.
My old Brittany priests knew much more Latin and mathematics than my new masters; but they lived in the catacombs, bereft of light and air. Here, the atmosphere of the age had free course. In our walks to Gentilly of an evening we engaged in endless discussions. I could never sleep of a night after that; my head was full of Hugo and Lamartine.
They extend under the communes of Vauregard, Montrouge, and Gentilly on the left bank of the Seine, and it is said that a tenth part of Paris is thus undermined. In 1774, and again in 1777, accidents occurred through the giving way of the crowns of the caverns, bringing down with them the houses built above.
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