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Updated: June 6, 2025
The prince showed him the fairy's written order that for the present peace must still be kept, and Cornichon, filled with longing to see Toupette once more, begged to be allowed to accompany Zeprady on his mission to Ratibouf.
Still, she was perfectly happy without him, and this the poor man did not fail to see, almost blind and deaf from age though he was. But it was left to Kristopo to undo at last the work of Dindonette, and give Cornichon back the youth he had lost, and this the genius did all the more gladly, as he discovered, quite by accident, that Cornichon was in fact his son.
But the charm is working already! Cornichon is taller and more manly than he was an hour ago, and Toupette no longer looks like a little girl. It was true; but this fact did not seem to render the young people as miserable as it did Selnozoura. 'Do not pity us, said Cornichon. 'If we are fated to grow old so soon, let us no longer delay our marriage.
'Ah, do not say that, replied Cornichon, clasping her hand. 'You are different, it is true; but every age has its graces, and surely no woman of sixty was ever handsomer than you! If your eyes had been as bright as of yore they would have matched badly with your faded skin.
Cornichon has also a cupboard there in which he stores his wood for winter, paying twenty-pence per hundred pounds for logs; and as the room contains no grate, he rents a German stove from his landlord, paying four-and-two-pence for his use of it during the season. Friponnet rents two unfurnished rooms up four pair of stairs, at the back of a house in the street d’Argenteuil.
You must ring for the porter if you would go in to Cornichon; and the porter must, by a jerk at a string, unlatch the street door if Cornichon wishes to come out to you. In a little court at the back are two flights of dirty stairs of red tile edged with wood. They lead to distinct portions of the house. Cornichon’s room is paved with red tiles, polished now and then with beeswax.
Selnozoura then took the hand of the poor old man, and the genius came forward and touched him three times with his ring, when Cornichon was transformed into a handsome young man. 'May you live long, the genius said, 'to enjoy happiness with your wife, and to love your father. And that was the end of the mischief wrought by the fairy Dindonette! Long, Broad, and Quickeye
'Happy is he, she began, 'who can repair the evil he has caused, but happier he who has never caused any. As nobody contradicted this remark, she continued: 'To me it is only allowed to undo one half of the mischief I have wrought. I could restore you your youth, she said to Cornichon, 'or your beauty, turning to Toupette. 'I will do both; and I will do neither.
But, however undecided the fairy might be, it was quite different with Cornichon and Toupette. 'Ah, my love, exclaimed Cornichon, 'at length I shall be able to give you the best proof of my devotion by showing you how I value the beauties of your mind above those of your body!
For many of these ornaments I was not so much answerable as Cornichon, whom Lauraguais lent me, and who was the intendant of my buildings during my absence abroad. I had given the man CARTE BLANCHE, and when he fell down and broke his leg, as he was decorating a theatre in the room which had been the old chapel of the castle, the people of the country thought it was a judgment of Heaven upon him.
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