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"Boivin said, 'Have a little patience and we will reach the river bank. "We reached the river. Here there was an odor of mud and dirty water, and the sun blazed down on the water so that it burned my eyes. I begged Boivin to go under cover somewhere. He took me into a kind of shanty filled with men, a river boatmen's tavern. "He said: "'This does not look very grand, but it is very comfortable.
"I dragged him away, holding him up until we reached the first bush where I deposited him. I lay down beside him and, it seems, I fell asleep. We must certainly have slept a long time, for it was dark when I awoke. Boivin was snoring at my side. I shook him; he rose but he was still drunk, though a little less so. "We set out through the darkness across the plain. Boivin said he knew the way.
He was dreaming of the outing which he had planned for the following Sunday, and he was seized by a sudden longing for the country, a desire of growing tender over nature, this thirst for rustic scenes which overwhelms the Parisians in spring time. Only one person gave him any attention; it was a silent old copying clerk named Boivin, nicknamed Boileau.
Little Boivin, very nervous, was gesticulating and shaking his head in despair. Patissot was as sad as though some disaster had overtaken him. The fat gentleman alone, still motionless, was quietly smoking without paying any attention to his line. At last Patissot, disgusted, turned toward him and said in a mournful voice: "They are not biting, are they?" He quietly replied: "Of course not!"
Help! as loud as I could, lighting candle-matches to show the way to our rescuers, and also to keep up my courage. "At last a belated peasant heard us and put us on our right road. I took Boivin to his home, but as I was leaving him on the threshold of his garden, the door opened suddenly and his wife appeared, a candle in her hand. She frightened me horribly.
After the stew she brought in another dish of potatoes cooked with bacon. When this dish was finished, still in silence, she announced: "'That is all! Now get out! "Boivin looked at her in astonishment. "'But the pigeon the pigeon you plucked this morning? "She put her hands on her hips: "'Perhaps you have not had enough?
And twenty times running I kept it up, soaking my feet afresh each time, and perspiring anew as I worked the handle of the pump. And when I was tired out and wanted to stop, Boivin, in a tone of entreaty, said as he put his hand on my arm: "Just one more watering pot full just one, and that will be all.
Ambroise Brouet was busy in his kitchen; Louis Gauber was at his forge; Pierre Masson, when not occupied at his tailor's bench, was hard at work in the garden, the pride of the mission; Christophe Regnaut and Jacques Levrier were mending or fashioning shoes and moccasins; Joseph Molere prepared potions for the sick and had charge of the laundry; and Charles Boivin, the master-builder, superintended the erection of new buildings or the strengthening and improving of those already built.
The charms of youth are the unique equipage of love; A coat made by Brisson, a pair of gloves bought from Boivin, elegant shoes, for whose payment the dealer trembles, a well-tied cravat are sufficient to make a man king of the drawing-room; And soldiers although the passion for gold lace and aiguillettes has died away do not soldiers form of themselves a redoubtable legion of celibates?
"A large water bottle full of water lightly colored with wine attracted my attention. Boivin, embarrassed, said to his wife: "'See here, my dear, just on a special occasion, are you not going to give us some plain wine? "She looked at him furiously. "'So that you may both get tipsy, is that it, and stay here gabbing all day? A fig for your special occasion! "He said no more.
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