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I shall put it away in my strong box, and keep it for you, like a faithful treasurer." "But surely you haven't abandoned the poor marquis," said Blazius, rather reproachfully. "Of course I know there was no question of his giving you up; you are not one of that sort. The role of Ariadne would not suit you at all; you are a Circe.
If you had had some of the magic compound Apuleius tells us of, and had thereby changed yourself into a bird, to come and listen to what Blazius and I were saying a little while ago, you would have heard nothing but good of yourself a rare thing that for listeners and you would have heard some very enthusiastic praise besides." "That's charming!" the soubrette exclaimed.
"Leave him in peace! do not disturb these poor remains!" said de Sigognac in trembling tones; "don't you see that he is dead?" "Alas! you are right," Blazius added, "he is dead; dead as Cheops in the great pyramid.
Scapin asked, with a sob he did not even try to suppress, as he bent to look at the face of the poor comic actor, for he had a tender heart under his rough exterior, and had cherished a very sincere affection for poor Matamoie. "Very dead indeed, for he is frozen as well," Blazius replied, in a voice that belied the levity of his words.
This advice was approved by all, and Blazius, going forward by himself, knocked gently at the great gate, which was first opened cautiously just a very little, then flung impetuously back; and then the comedians, from their outpost in the snow, saw a most extraordinary and inexplicable scene enacted before their astonished eyes.
At last Blazius, whose tongue was scarcely ever at rest, save when he slept, could restrain it no longer, and began to expatiate upon the mournful theme of which all were thinking, embellishing his discourse with many apt quotations, apothegms and maxims, of which in his role of pedant he had an ample store laid up in his memory.
"Oh! as to that," cried de Sigognac, with a gesture expressive of all that pride of birth which no misfortunes could crush, "I have my father's sword." "True," answered Blazius, "and guard it sacredly, my lord! for a sword is a faithful friend defender of its master's life and honour. IT does not abandon him in times of peril and disaster, like the false friends who cling only to prosperity.
"No, certainly, we cannot leave him here," Blazius replied; "he was a good and loyal comrade; he deserves better of us than that; we will not abandon him, poor Matamore! He is not heavy; you take his head and I will take his feet, and we will carry him to the chariot. To-morrow morning we will bury him as decently as we can in some quiet, retired spot, where he will not be likely to be disturbed.
She is almost worth her weight in gold, that little minx; a real treasure, so full of fun and deviltry that nobody can resist her acting; she would make any piece go off well a pearl of soubrettes is Zerbine." "Yes, she is a rare one," Blazius replied, with a deep sigh, "and I regret more and more every day our having lost her.
Seeing that he was very faint, Blazius hastened to fetch some wine his sovereign remedy for every ill but de Sigognac rejected it, and signed that he wanted water instead. "A great mistake," said the pedant, shaking his head disapprovingly, "a sad mistake water is only fit for frogs, and fish, and such-like cold-blooded creatures it does not do for human beings at all.
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