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Updated: June 12, 2025
At the end of a few moments, the mother, in a weak voice, said: "Show her to me, Benoist." He took up the little one and was showing it to her as if he were holding the consecrated wafer, when the door opened, and Isidore Vallin appeared. He did not understand at first, then all at once he guessed.
The outcry resembled the beginning of an execution; Bonaparte made a sudden movement to the right, turned back, and re-entered the courtyard of the Louvre. Georges Biscarrat felt it necessary to complete his shout by a barricade. He said to the bookseller, Benoist Mouilhe, who had just opened his shop, "Shouting is good, action is better."
Then he walked right up to her, choking with fear and emotion, but determined to speak to her. He began falteringly: "See here, Martine, this cannot go on like this any longer." She replied as if she wanted to tease him: "What cannot go on any longer, Benoist?" "My thinking of you as many hours as there are in the day," he answered. She put her hands on her hips. "I do not oblige you to do so."
Then the husband, his eyes full of tears, stepped forward, took the little mite of humanity that he held out to him, kissed it, unable to speak from emotion for a few seconds; then placing the child on the bed, he held out both hands to Benoist, saying: "Your hand upon it, Benoist. From now on we understand each other. If you are willing, we will be a pair of friends, a pair of friends!"
"I am speaking of her clothes. Her waist is worn to threads; I have never seen such a skirt on anybody but a beggar, and she certainly must have made the shoes she is wearing herself." "And her face, what is she like, Benoist?" "Very intelligent and very pretty." "Hard looking or any signs of vice?" "No; quite the contrary. She has a very frank, honest look.
"Silence," commanded M. Vulfran, in a tone that admitted of no reply. "From this moment you can consider yourself dismissed from my service." "But, sir, I was going to say...." With an uplifted motion of his hand M. Vulfran stopped him and turned to his manager. "Thank you, Benoist," he said, "but I think this little girl can drive me home.
Some few remained who were packed in an omnibus. MM. Benoist d'Azy, Falloux, Piscatory, Vatimesail, were locked in the wheeled cells, as also Eugène Sue and Esquiros. The worthy M. Gustave de Beaumont, a great upholder of the cellular system, rode in a cell vehicle. It is not an undesirable thing, as we have said, that the legislator should taste of the law.
Benoist, in consternation, stammered out: "I was passing, I was just passing by when f heard her crying out, and I came there is your child, Vallin!"
And Benoist replied: "Indeed I will, certainly, indeed I will." Compte de Lormerin had just finished dressing. He cast a parting glance at the large mirror which occupied an entire panel in his dressing-room and smiled. He was really a fine-looking man still, although quite gray.
And as Benoist never missed a chance to flatter his employer, he added: "Undoubtedly without having even seen her you have guessed all that I have told you." "Her accent struck me as being very cultured," replied Monsieur Vulfran. Although Perrine had not heard all that the two men had said, she had caught a few words, which had thrown her into a state of great agitation.
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