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We shall have to chain him up, or he will carry off the Sabines from the streets; for, as said the Swan of Cambray in his Treatise on Education for the Dauphin, "'Of Gutter-jumper have a care, Who assaults the lovely fair." "I demand the head of Chalamel!" "M. Chalamel, you said a black robe, I thought." "It is the cure, goose! Let him be an example for you." "The cure of the parish?
The stranger tried to smile, but the muscles of his face relaxed as he vainly looked for some symptoms of amenity on the inexorably indifferent faces of the six clerks. Accustomed, no doubt, to gauge men, he very politely addressed the gutter-jumper, hoping to get a civil answer from this boy of all work. "Monsieur, is your master at home?"
"Here she is," answered Simonnin. "So you are not deaf, you young rogue!" said Chabert, taking the gutter-jumper by the ear and twisting it, to the delight of the other clerks, who began to laugh, looking at the Colonel with the curious attention due to so singular a personage. Comte Chabert was in Derville's private room at the moment when his wife came in by the door of the office.
In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names: Malin, head-clerk; Grevin, second-clerk; Athanase Feret, clerk; Jacques Heret, clerk; Regnault de Saint-Jean-d'Angely, clerk; Bedeau, youngest clerk and gutter-jumper. In the year of our Lord 1787.
"HULLO! There is that old Box-coat again!" This exclamation was made by a lawyer's clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper a messenger in fact who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open pane of the window against which he was leaning.
"Oh! a carriage!" said Chalamel, leaning over toward the window. "Nothing but a hackney-coach." "And who gets out?" "Stop a moment! Oh! a black-gown!" "A woman! a woman! Oh! let us see." "This gutter-jumper is indecently sensitive at his age; he only thinks of women.
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