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So he took an occasion of questioning the porter, in her absence, and asked him, "Whither goest thou every day with yonder woman?"; and he answered, "I know not what to make of her for surprise; inasmuch as every day, after she hath taken the lamb of thee, she buyeth necessaries of the table, fresh and dried fruits and wax-candles a dinar's worth, and taketh of a certain person, which is a Nazarene, two flagons of wine, worth another dinar; and then she leadeth me with the whole and I go with her to the Wazir's Gardens, where she blindfoldeth me, so that I cannot see on what part of earth I set my feet; and, taking me by the hand, she leadeth me I know not whither.
The carpet had been taken up in the long room, so that the young folks might have a dance. Miss Matilda's piano had been moved in, and two fiddlers and a clarionet-player engaged to make music. All kinds of lamps had been put in requisition, and even colored wax-candles figured on the mantel-pieces.
The imagination displayed in the adornment of the chariots, when the great Florentine artists undertook the work, made the scene so impressive that such representations became in time a permanent element in the popular life. Hitherto the subject cities had been satisfied merely to present their symbolical gifts costly stuffs and wax-candles on the day when they annually did homage.
Micawber, I don't know whether it was the effect of the cap, or the lavender-water, or the pins, or the fire, or the wax-candles, but she came out of my room, comparatively speaking, lovely. And the lark was never gayer than that excellent woman. I suppose I never ventured to inquire, but I suppose that Mrs. Crupp, after frying the soles, was taken ill. Because we broke down at that point.
The Major took his place in a corner of the church whence there was a very good view of the altar, where the feeble flames of the wax-candles made little splashes of yellow light in the fog. The fog got thicker and thicker in the church as the hour for the marriage ceremony drew nearer and nearer, and the light of the wax-candles grew brighter as the atmosphere became more murky.
The painter said: "How would you set about making a chandelier?" The other, surprised, asked: "What chandelier?" "Why, a chandelier to light the room a chandelier with wax-candles." The notary did not understand. He answered: "I don't know." The painter began to jump about, cracking his fingers. "Well, monseigneur, I have found out a way."
The cabinet which contained this treasure was lighted by so many wax-candles that their brilliancy dazzled you, and gave a new splendor to the beauties of the goddess. "The Authors of this fine comedy did not doubt but the object would make an impression on the King's heart; but it was quite otherwise.
You did a nice thing in parking me off to the country. You'll soon see the way I'll settle your jollification. Yes, I'm going to receive your friends." She grew warmer. "I'm going to slap their faces with the bottles and the wax-candles " Romantin said in a soft tone: "Mathilde " But she did not pay any attention to him; she went on: "Wait a little, my fine fellow! wait a little!"
And he carried off Mathilde, who kept drying her eyes with her handkerchief as she went along. Left to himself, M. Saval succeeded in putting everything around him in order. Then he lighted the wax-candles, and waited. He waited for a quarter of an hour, half an hour, an hour. Romantin did not return.
Then he went on more calmly: "Have you got five francs about you?" M. Saval replied: "Why, yes." The artist said: "Well! you'll go out and buy for me five francs' worth of wax-candles while I go and see the cooper." And he pushed the notary in his evening coat into the street. At the end of five minutes, they had returned, one of them with the wax-candles and the other with the hoop of a cask.
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