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The boy who saw Babet tear down the placard was produced and solemnly examined; and the thoughtless action of this poor little girl was construed into a state crime of the most horrible nature. The orator, for the reward of his eloquence, obtained an order to seize every thing in Mad. de Fleury's school-house, and to throw the nun into prison.
Jean had not the heart to say another word to Babet about the French gown. In truth, he thought she looked very pretty in it, better than in grogram or in linsey-woolsey, although at double the cost. He only winked knowingly at Babet, and went on to speaking of the Bourgeois. "They say the King has long hands, but this Intendant has claws longer than Satan.
She kissed it, and rearranged its swaddling clothes, while threatening Catherine with her fist. 'If it had fallen, she cried out, 'I would have boxed your ears for you, nicely. Big Fortune now came slouching along. The three girls stepped towards him, with compressed lips. 'See how proud he is, murmured Babet to the others. 'He is sure of inheriting old Bambousse's money now.
Babet said with conviction that he was like me; the midwife discovered that he had his mother's eyes; I, for my part, could not say, I was almost crying, I smothered the dear little thing with kisses, imagining I was still kissing Babet. I placed the child on the bed. He kept on crying, but this sounded to us like celestial music.
We put little Marie into bed; she had insisted on keeping her doll, and went quietly to sleep pressing it in her arms. This child's sleep relieved me; when I turned round and saw Babet, listening to the little girl's regular breathing, I forgot the danger, all I heard was the water beating against the walls. But Jacques and I could not help looking the peril in the face.
Babet, who was resolved to have her share in assisting her benefactress, proposed to carry the ring to a colporteur a pedlar, or sort of travelling jeweller who had come to lay in a stock of hardware at Paris: he was related to one of Madame de Fleury's little pupils, and readily disposed of the ring for her: she obtained at least two-thirds of its value a great deal in those times.
My aunt and Amelie are in the old home in the city; they will be glad to see you and Babet," added he, kindly, as he got into the boat. Babet dropped her neatest courtesy, and Jean, all alive to his duty, pushed off his boat, bearing the two gentlemen and their horses across the broad St.
Babet did her best to find out from the count why he laughed so much, but he could not tell her for laughing, for which I gave thanks with all my heart. At last the carriage stopped at my house, and as soon as my servant had opened the door of my carriage I got down as fast as I could, and wished them good night a compliment which Tour d'Auvergne returned with fresh peals of laughter.
"Why, it was only the other day I heard that great foreign gentleman, who is the guest of His Excellency the Governor, say, sitting in this very boat, that 'there are at this time four women to every man in New France! If that is true, Babet, and you know he said it, for you were angry enough, a man is a prize indeed, in New France, and women are plenty as eggs at Easter!"
Then, having kissed the altar, Abbe Mouret once more turned round, and murmured over the bent heads of the newly married pair the final benediction: 'Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac, et Deus Jacob vobiscum sit' his voice dying away into a gentle whisper. 'Now, he's going to address them, said Babet to her friends. 'He is very pale, observed Lisa.
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