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Cibot, entering in her usual unceremonious fashion, found the doctor and his mother at table, before a bowl of lamb's lettuce, the cheapest of all salad-stuffs. The dessert consisted of a thin wedge of Brie cheese flanked by a plate of specked foreign apples and a dish of mixed dry fruits, known as quatre-mendiants, in which the raisin stalks were abundantly conspicuous.
All the company who had been pressing around us halted still. I knew that behind me some one had entered the room. M. de Brie dragged me back from where we were blocking the passage. I turned in his grasp to face the newcomer. He was a tall, stout man, deep-chested, thick-necked, heavy-jowled.
Madame Vinet was a Chargeboeuf, an old and noble family of La Brie, whose name comes from the exploit of a squire during the expedition of Saint Louis to Egypt. She incurred the displeasure of her father and mother, who arranged, unknown to Vinet, to leave their entire fortune to their son, doubtless charging him privately, to pay over a portion of it to his sister's children.
A dim little shop and shabby, modestly tucked away in the shadows of the Rue Brie. But the food! Ah, the whadd'you-call'ems in the savoury sauce, that is Henri's secret! The tender, broiled poularde, done to a turn! The bottle of red wine! Mais oui; there one can dine under the watchful glare of Rosa, the plump, black-eyed wife of the concierge.
I suppose if they asked Champaigne you would have had me give them La Brie besides; but in four months I will conquer peace, or I shall be dead! In all your committees you have excluded the friends of Government extraordinary commission committee of finance committee of the address, all, all my enemies. M. Laine, I repeat it, is a traitor; he is a wicked man, the others are mere intriguers.
At Neuhausen, near Merseburg, the person who binds the last sheaf is wrapt in ears of oats and saluted as the Oatsman, whereupon the others dance round him. At Brie, Isle de France, the farmer himself is tied up in the first sheaf. At Dingelstedt, in the district of Erfurt, down to the first half of the nineteenth century it was the custom to tie up a man in the last sheaf.
Crevel himself had married for money the daughter of a miller of la Brie, an only child indeed, whose inheritance constituted three-quarters of his fortune; for when retail-dealers grow rich, it is generally not so much by trade as through some alliance between the shop and rural thrift.
One must eat every day, and the finest Alexandrine verses are not worth a bit of Brie cheese. Hence, I was on the point of dying with hunger. Happily, I found that I was rather strong in the jaw; so I said to this jaw, perform some feats of strength and of equilibrium: nourish thyself. Ale te ipsam.
Quiriace close by, now a mere patchwork of different epochs, but in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries one of the most remarkable religious monuments in Brie and Champagne.
Brie is interesting to us as forming one of the links between Continental and English monasticism at this time.
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