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Updated: September 12, 2025
There was Clarisse Besnus, whom a lady had brought up from Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer in the capacity of maid while the lady's husband had started her in quite another line. There was Simonne Cabiroche, the daughter of a furniture dealer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, who had been educated in a large boarding school with a view to becoming a governess.
He closed it after him, turned the key, pushed the bolt and, going up to Clarisse, said: "And now, darling, listen to me." This time, she uttered no protest. What could she do against such an enemy, so powerful, so resourceful, who provided for everything, down to the minutest details, and who toyed with his adversaries in such an airy fashion?
The Gaieté, on the Boulevart du Temple, is another theatre of much the same description; at present, however, the company is considered to be very good: the strength consisting of Neuville, the brothers Francisque and Deshays, and of the females, Madame Gautier, Clarisse, Leontine, Abit, and Melanie are considered the best. Some pieces have come out at this theatre that have had a great run.
Besides..." He took a little bottle from a cupboard and, putting his hand on Clarisse's shoulder, said: "Lie down here, on the sofa, and take a few drops of this mixture." "What's it for?" "It will make you sleep for a few hours... and forget. That's always so much gained." "No, no," protested Clarisse, "I don't want to. Gilbert is not asleep. He is not forgetting."
When the servant brings them in he looks at them and judges them without tasting them. Often he says: "That is bad." "Have you eaten of it?" "No, God forbid!" "But taste it." "It is detestable." "I will taste it," says Clarisse. "It is execrable. I forbid you to do so." "But let me try it." "Take that dish away! It is filthy!" And he sends for his cook and rates her soundly.
"When all the expenses are paid, I shall still be well to the good; and it's not over yet." Then turning to Clarisse Mergy, he asked: "Have you a bag?" "Yes, I bought one when I reached Nice, with some linen and a few necessaries; for I left Paris unprepared." "Get all that ready. Then go down to the office.
And Lupin also summoned up the vision of Clarisse, as he had seen her several days before, fainting, already beaten, fatally conquered, because all the hostile powers were in league against her. He contained himself and said: "Listen to me."
Then as La Faloise passed by, she contented herself by remarking to him: "Listen, my friend, you like 'em well advanced, you do! You don't want 'em ripe; you want 'em mildewed!" La Faloise seemed much annoyed and not a little anxious. Seeing Clarisse making game of him, he grew suspicious of her. "No humbug, I say," he muttered. "You've taken my handkerchief. Well then, give it back!"
Beauty should at least have touched society; then, in a moment, it throws off a weight that lay upon it, it becomes conscious of itself, it puts on an elegance, learns a gait and a carriage of the head, and, in a moment, patet dea. Before I left I assured Clarisse of my hearty admiration.
"Then why do they advertise for nine o'clock?" muttered Hector, whose long thin face assumed an expression of vexation. "Only this morning Clarisse, who's in the piece, swore that they'd begin at nine o'clock punctually." For a moment they remained silent and, looking upward, scanned the shadowy boxes. But the green paper with which these were hung rendered them more shadowy still.
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