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This, then, O my lady, is my story and the manner of the shaving of my face and the loss of my eye. Quoth the mistress of the house, 'Begone about thy business. But he said, 'By Allah, I will not go, till I hear the others' stories! Then she turned to the Khalif and his companions and said, 'Give me an account of yourselves. So Jaafer came forward and repeated the story he had told the portress; whereupon the lady said, 'I pardon you all: go your ways. So they all went out; and when they reached the street the Khalif said to the Calenders, 'O folk, whither are you bound now, seeing that it is not yet day? 'By Allah, O my lord, answered they, 'we know not where to go! 'Then come and pass the rest of the night with us, said the Khalif, and turning to Jaafer, said to him, 'Take them home with thee and to-morrow bring them before me, that we may cause their adventures to be recorded. Jaafer did as the Khalif bade him, and the latter returned to his palace.
"I have also given directions to Sister Dominica that after he shall have concluded his interview with Mr. Scott, and partaken of dinner, which will be prepared for him in the receiving parlor, he shall be requested to meet me in the portress' room, where I propose to break to him the intelligence of your presence in the house."
If the abbess died, as die she almost certainly must within half an hour, if the medicine were not given to her if she died, Maria would call the sisters, the portress would be instructed, and when Dalrymple came on the morrow, he would be told that all was over, and that he was no longer needed. Nothing could be more sure. He might do his utmost. He could not enter the convent again.
"Well, then, the Spirit!" cried the sorceress impatiently. "Good-bye, Ma'am Fontaine," exclaimed the portress. "I did not know what the grand jeu was like. You have given me a good fright, that you have." "The mistress will not put herself in that state twice in a month," said the servant, as she went with La Cibot to the landing. "She would do herself to death if she did, it tires her so.
"Yes, yes," said the good-natured nun; "surely you shall hear all I can tell you about it; but " she hesitated timidly, "but I must ask the Mother Superior's leave first." Saying these words, she summoned the portress, to my great amusement, to keep guard over the inestimable Correggio in her absence, and left the room.
"If we 'plain of absence what shall we say? * Or if pain afflict us where wend our way? Or hast forgotten the weeping slave * Whom groans afflict and whom griefs waylay? Ah, when severance ends and we side by side * Couch, I'll blame thy rigours and chide thy pride!" Now when the portress heard her second ode she shrieked aloud and said, "By Allah!
Father Carnesecchi, I perceived, was with Aurelia; for the note brought back by the portress was all in his handwriting but the signature. The initials A. L. were in her own.
They ceased not to drink and carouse thus, till the wine sported in their heads and got the better of their senses, when the portress, arose, and putting off her clothes, let down her hair over her naked body, for a veil.
And that also is why, on the second occasion, I made my little Jacques take the stopper from your overcoat-pocket and told the portress to put it back in the drawer." "Then he suspects nothing?" "Nothing. He knows that the list is being looked for, but he does not know that Prasville and I are aware of the thing in which he hides it."
When it rained, an old woman, the portress, took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what was told to Jean Valjean.
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