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The hotel which Madame de Sabran inhabits has an entrance from the Rue des Bons Enfants; after a certain hour they shut the passage from the Palais Royal, which opens on the Rue des Bons Enfants: and he will be obliged, on his return, to follow either the Cour des Fontaines, or the Rue Neuve des Bons Enfants, and then we shall have him.
In due time the Congregation outgrew the Collège des Bons Enfants, and was transferred to a large Augustinian priory which had originally been a leper hospital, and still bore the name of St. Lazare.
He knew, too, that she would have considered dislike of the Belots as showing defect in him not in them, but cheerfully, if with a touch of her severity. She had an infinite tolerance for the defects and foibles of those she loved. He was glad to be able to reply with full sincerity: "Ils sont de braves gens et de bons artistes."
"What do I want with other folk?" said she to herself. "Let us make a round sum, and afterwards I will take all that they offer me to push their interests;" and this thought, as will shortly be seen, hastened the poor old musician's end. "Well, dear M. Schmucke, and how is our dear, adored patient?" asked La Cibot, as she came into the room. "Fery pad; Bons haf peen vandering all der night."
He was the sublimation of Yankee wit as Lowell was of Yankee humor and human nature, and he made of witticism a study; polished, refined, and prepared his "bons mots", and, at the best moment, led the conversation round to the point at which it was opportune to fire them off.
Then followed such lesser lights, as Nixon, Leslie and the other guests. A most exacting group of bons vivants, these. The host had realized it and had brought out his best.
"Bloke farther up the trenches, sir, wot don't seem quite right in the 'ead." Somewhat confused at the sudden appearance of the powers that be, the perspiring harbinger of bons mots relapsed into an uncomfortable and depressing silence. "Not right in the head," barked the General. "God bless my soul! It must be the heat. Dreadful. What shall we do, Curtis?"
She just wondered vaguely what was afoot. When the last carriage had rolled away, and the guns and acclamations had ceased, the crowd at length began to scatter. She was carried by it into the Place du Palais Royal, and in a few moments she managed to withdraw into the Rue des Bons Enfants and was free.
Brotherson himself would not be apt to show surprise in any such noisy way. "I saw many things Oh many things " the girl proceeded with an admirable mixture of suggestion and reserve. "That day and other days too. She did not talk Oh, no, she did not talk, but I saw Oh, yes, I saw that she that you I'll have to say it, monsieur, that you were tres bons amis after that week in Lenox." "Well?"
About the Thuilleries, indeed, and here and there, a few "bien poudréd" little old men, "des bons Papas du Temps passé," may be seen dry as Mummies and as shrivelled, with their ribbons and Croix St. Louis, tottering about.
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