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We were going to the Elysee Montmartre, and Alphonsine lent her a couple of louis, pour passer sa soiree, and we all went away in carriages, the little horses straining up the steep streets; the plumes of the women's hats floating over the carriage hoods. Marie was in one of the front carriages, and was waiting for us on the high steps leading from the street to the bal.
She rejoiced that she had missed the family meal, for it was not easy to sit at the table with Grandmother and Cousin Tom and Aunt Alphonsine, unspoken comments on her position hanging from each face like stalactites.
The day after their meeting she had found Aunt Alphonsine all a dry frightened gibber, holding a whitefaced conference with Grandmother in the parlour, and they had asked her if she had known that Peacey had left Torque Hall that morning.
When one afternoon she came to the head of the stairs and saw Aunt Alphonsine gesticulating in her tight dame de compagnie black in the parlour below, stretching out her long lean neck like the spout of a coffee-pot to Grandmothers' ear, she stood quite still, staring at the two women and hating them till they saw her and fell silent.
No more is Alphonsine Seguin scare. She's seventeen, an' she wait for de fight to be all over. Den she take her fader home, same like I'll take my fader home for bed. Dat's after twelve o'clock of night. "Nex' mawny early my fader he's groaned and he's groaned: 'Ah ugh I'm sick, sick, me. I'll be goin' for die dis time, for sure. "'You get up an' scoop some fish, my moder she's say, angry.
She certainly did a dishonorable thing at college, and her eyes, although they are so beautiful, are a little shifty. I don't want to like her and I don't mean to, so there!" The Browns' move from Boulevard St. Michael amounted almost to a flitting in the eyes of Mrs. Pace, as they departed while she was at market and had to leave their good-bye with Alphonsine for their respected landlady.
'De big sturgeon will pull away de net. Den Alphonsine she will lose her fader's scoop wis de sturgeon. Dat's good 'nuff for dose Seguins! Take my fader platform, eh? "For sure, I'll want for go an' help Alphonsine all de same she's my cousin, an' I'll want for see de sturgeon, me. But I'll only just laugh, laugh.
They looked terrible: Grandmother sitting among her spreading skirts, her face trembling with a weak forgiving sweetness, her hands clasped on her stick-handle with a strength which showed that if she was not allowed to forgive she would be merciless; Aunt Alphonsine, covering her bosom with those arms which looked so preternaturally and rapaciously long in the tight sleeves that Frenchwomen always love, and fingering now and then the scar that crossed her oval face as if it were an amulet the touch of which inspired her to be righteous and malign.
When de old villain see us have fun, he's yell: 'I'll learn you bose one lesson for this. Pull me ashore! "'Oh! you's learn, us bose one lesson, M'sieu Savarin, eh? Alphonsine she's say. 'Well, den, us bose will learn M'sieu Savarin one lesson first. Pull him up a little, she's say to me.
It is mean, mean for Frawce Seguin to rent my fader's platform for please dat old rascal Savarin. Mebby I'll not be so angry at Alphonsine, M'sieu, if I was able for catch some fish; but I hain't able I don't catch none. "Well, M'sieu, dat's de way for long time half-hour mebby. Den I'll hear Alphonsine yell good. I'll look up de river some more. She's try for lift her net.
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