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They were the young railroad officials, pupils and assistants, and each one was the Casanova of his district! In those small places there were no other uniforms, and what was the bouquet on Florian's hat worth, compared with those caps with gold braid and rosette! They took away his Lisi, Marianne at St. Martin, and the passionate beauty Resele in the little hamlet of Eis.
She was a little put out that he should see her untidiness. He laughed at it and bent over the better to see it. "No," she said, trying to hide the drawers with her hands. "Don't look! It is a dreadful muddle...." She went on looking. But Christophe embarrassed her. She was cross, and as she pushed the drawer back she said: "I can't find any. Go to Lisi, in the next street.
Then each little member of the maidenly circle looked very odd, and their good relative uttered hurriedly but mildly, "Oh, it's nothing. How could you, Lisi? Behave yourselves, children!" However, an explanation of the sewing-woman Barbara being pleaded for on our part, the good woman nervously continued: "It is only a foolish story.
"Shall I help you?" asked Christophe. She refused. She would gladly have accepted: but she dared not, for fear of gossip. And besides it humiliated her. They went on talking. "And your buttons?" she said to Christophe a moment later. "Aren't you going to Lisi?" "Never," said Christophe. "I shall wait until you have tidied up."
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