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Updated: May 26, 2025
These were no other than Max Grimeau and Blind Bartemy, the brace of beggars whose post was at the gate of the Basse Ville.
But the Intendant gave me a crown when he read it. I never saw the Chevalier Bigot in better humor! That letter touched both his purse and his feelings. But how did you ever come to hear of the Lady of Beaumanoir?" "Oh, Bartemy and I hear everything at the gate of the Basse Ville!
"Oh, fleecing the King's subjects to the best of my poor ability in the law! and without half the success of you and Max here, who toll the gate of the Basse Ville more easily than the Intendant gets in the King's taxes!" "Why not?" replied Bartemy, with a pious twist of his neck, and an upward cast of his blank orbs. "It is pour l'amour de Dieu!
It will make a man see stars at noonday. Won't it, Bartemy?" "What! old turn-penny! are you here?" cried Cadet, recognizing the old beggar of the gate of the Basse Ville. "Oh, yes, your Honor!" replied Bartemy, with his professional whine, "pour l'amour de Dieu!" "Gad! you are the jolliest beggar I know out of the Friponne," replied Cadet, throwing him a crown.
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