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"The old lady has entered her sanctuary," thought Gerfaut, who knew that it was as impossible to see Constance without her mistress as St.-Roch without his dog. A moment later he saw Justine and Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's maid starting off, arm in arm, as if they were going for a promenade.
The first man was Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's coachman, as large a fellow as ever crushed the seats of landau or brougham with his rotundity. He was advancing with hands in the pockets of his green jacket and his broad shoulders thrown back, as if he had taken it upon himself to replace Atlas.
"There will be one difficulty in the way, though they expect about twenty persons at dinner, and all her time will probably be taken up with her duties as hostess." "That is true," exclaimed Gerfaut, jumping up so suddenly that he upset his chair. "You still forget that Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's room is beneath us."
It was that old idiot of a Rousselet and that old simpleton of a coachman of Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's who told tales about me. I could tell tales also if I liked." "But what motive could they have to send you away?" continued Marillac, "you are a clever workman.
That is the reason why, at this very moment, I am up to my ears in a little rustic love affair: Simple et naive bergerette, elle regne " "Stop that noise; Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's room is just underneath."
"You forget that Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's room is just beneath us," said the artist, in a teasing way. "Listen to me, Marillac! Your system with women is vulgar, gross, and trivial.
"There will be one difficulty in the way, though they expect about twenty persons at dinner, and all her time will probably be taken up with her duties as hostess." "That is true," exclaimed Gerfaut, jumping up so suddenly that he upset his chair. "You still forget that Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's room is beneath us."
But the two principal persons in this picture were a young country girl and a young man seated opposite her, who seemed busily engaged in making her portrait. One would easily recognize, from the airs and elegance of the young woman, that she was the daughter of the house, Mademoiselle Reine Gobillot, the one whose passion for fashion-plates had excited Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's anger.
But the two principal persons in this picture were a young country girl and a young man seated opposite her, who seemed busily engaged in making her portrait. One would easily recognize, from the airs and elegance of the young woman, that she was the daughter of the house, Mademoiselle Reine Gobillot, the one whose passion for fashion-plates had excited Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's anger.
When once I was installed in Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's drawing-room upon a friendly footing, this cessation of worldly festivities gave me an opportunity to see Clemence in a rather intimate way. "It would take too long to tell you now all the thousand and one little incidents which compose the history of all passions.
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