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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Like the Alsatians? it is very natural, since she is an Alsatian." "You don't say so!" "But I do! what is it that surprises you? The burnt child shuns the fire!" "Chalamel! what relation between your proverb and this cap?" "There is none." "Why did you say it, then?" "Because a benefit is never lost, and the dog is a friend of man!" "Hold!
"And then one evening they brought some furniture here in a covered cart." "I give it up! as sung the swan of Cambrai." "It is perhaps remorse for having imprisoned Germain which torments him." "Remorse he? It is too hard, and too tough, as the eagle of Meau said." "Fie, Chalamel!" "Speaking of Germain, he is going to have famous recruits in his prison, poor fellow." "How is that?"
Let us add that, from his simple credulity, this excellent priest had always been, and was still, the dupe of Jacques Ferrand's deep and cunning hypocrisy. "Your worthy master is in his cabinet, my son?" asked the cure. "Yes, M. l'Abbe," said Chalamel, rising respectfully. And he opened for the priest the door leading into a room adjoining the office.
If Chalamel opens his budget of proverbs, which mean nothing, we are in for it. Come, tell us what you know of this new servant." "The day before yesterday I was out in the yard: she had her back toward one of the windows of the ground-floor." "The yard's back?" "What stupidity! No, the servant's.
Then you owe us two bottles of Bordeaux: "'When one's master is not proud One must freely treat the crowd. It is the proverb that speaks; it is sacred. Proverbs are the wisdom of a nation." "Come, Chalamel, leave your proverbs alone. You comprehend, that, on hearing that, I at once understood that he was mistaken, or that he was in a high fever.
"Well! the governor is about selling his notary's business. At this present moment, perhaps, it is done." "Nonsense!" "Here is news!" "Let us see, without charge, who charges himself with the charge which he discharges?" "Tush! how insupportable Chalamel is with his riddles." "Do you think I know to whom he sells it?"
"Then I return to my idea; when the cure affirms a thing, he must be believed, as he is incapable of telling a falsehood; and yet to think as he does, that our master is charitable and generous that sticks in my throat." "Oh! how pretty that is, Chalamel! how pretty." "Seriously, I would just as soon believe that as I would a miracle. It would not be more difficult."
"I am rather inclined to believe that this intruder is the fruit of a first false step which M. Ferrand has committed in the springtime of life, for, as the Eagle of Meaux said concerning the taking of the veil by the tender La Valliere, "'Young or old, whiche'er you love, Crows may have an offspring dove!" "I demand the head of Chalamel!"
"I am sure that the governor would not have seen through his spectacles as much as you did; for here you have one, as they say, who, if he remained alone with a woman on the earth, the world would soon come to an end." "That is not astonishing. He laughs best who laughs last, and, moreover, punctuality is the politeness of kings." "How wearisome Chalamel is when he lays himself out to it!"
"Not to speak of his living like a curmudgeon." "But these misers, when once they begin to spend money, become as prodigal as they were once mean." "Well, I agree with Chalamel; I think that now the governor is coming out."
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