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Updated: June 18, 2025
This was said by Rodin with so much apparent kindness, that Rose-Pompon felt the tears well up to her eyes, and answered with much emotion: "Sir, Cephyse and me are only poor girls; there are many more virtuous in the world; but I venture to say, we have good hearts. Now, if ever you should be ill, only send for us; there are no Sisters of Charity that will take better care of you.
"Courage, sister!" said Cephyse, in a voice which was also growing faint, as she pressed her closer to her bosom; "it will soon be over." And Cephyse added, with a kind of envy, "Oh! why does my sister's strength fail so much sooner than mine? I have still my perfect senses and I suffer less than she does. Oh! if I thought she would die first!
As he pronounced this name, the joyous countenance of Jacques became suddenly overcast. Cephyse, no longer under the influence of the painful impression she had felt for a moment, looked uneasily at Jacques, for she knew the irritation which the name of M. Tripeaud produced within him. "M. Tripeaud," resumed Sleepinbuff, "is one that would make the good bad, and the bad worse.
And the two began carefully to stop up every crevice through which a current of air could penetrate into the ruined garret. Thanks to her tall stature, Cephyse was able to reach the holes in the roof, and to close them up entirely. When they had finished this sad work, the sisters again approached, and looked at each other in silence.
In it she saw Sleepinbuff, with one of the men who, two hours before, had been waiting on the Place du Chatelet. On the arrival of Cephyse, the man got down, and said to Jacques, as he drew out his watch: "I give you a quarter of an hour; it is all that I can do for you, my good fellow; after that we must start. Do not try to escape, for we'll be watching at the coach doors."
That moment the door was opened, and Cephyse, ran towards it. She saw in the passage a deputation headed by Ninny Moulin, who was armed with his formidable rattle, and followed by Rose-Pompon and Sleepinbuff. "The Bacchanal Queen! or I poison myself with a glass of water;" cried Ninny Moulin.
"So, courage, my girl courage!" said Jacques. "I will; you may rely upon me." "Are you going upstairs again?" "No oh no!" said Cephyse. "I have now a horror of this festivity." "Everything is paid for, and the waiter will tell them not to expect us back. They will be much astonished," continued Jacques, "but it's all the same now."
"It is only my court, who are getting impatient," said Cephyse and this time she could laugh. "Heavens!" cried the sewing-girl, in alarm; "if they were to come here in search of you?" "No, no never fear." "But listen! do you not hear those steps? they are coming along the passage they are approaching. Pray, sister, let me go out alone, without being seen by all these people."
"I promise you in her name," said Jacques; "we will pay a visit to you and your neighbor Agricola." "Return to the company, Cephyse, and amuse yourself with a light heart, for M. Jacques has made a whole family happy."
She paused; for the dim eye of the victim, as it rested upon her, grew suddenly bright. "Cephyse!" murmured Jacques; "is it you?" "Yes, it is I," answered she, in a voice of deep emotion; "who have come I will tell you "
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