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Even Mademoiselle Henriette managed to go sometimes aided by a little patent medicine, and when it was too hot for the chauffrette. If she was unable, a friend in the neighbourhood was offered a seat; and I had to sit bodkin, or on Mademoiselle Aglae's lap. I hated the 'friend'; for, secretly, I felt the carriage was mine, though of course I never had the bad taste to say so.
But I sometimes got into scrapes by mixing up the Greek prince with a Polish count, and then confounding either one or both with a Hungarian pianoforte player. Without formulating my deductions, I came instinctively to the conclusion that 'En fait d'amour, as Figaro puts it, 'trop n'est pas meme assez. From Miss Aglae's point of view a lover was a lover.
"Get a fresh lemon, Aglae," said Pere Socquard, "and go and rinse that glass yourself." "You did right to send her away," whispered Rigou, "or she might have been hurt"; and he glanced significantly at the hand with which Marie grasped a stool she had caught up to throw at Aglae's head.
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