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Updated: June 13, 2025
"He whom we took for a bourgeois in the coucou was the count. You may well say: 'Sour are the curses of perversity." Oscar was very nearly changed to a pillar of salt; for, at this revelation, his throat felt saltier than the sea. "And you, who talked to him about his wife's lovers and his skin diseases!" said Mistigris, turning on Oscar.
"'Coucou, he commenced, quietly, 'one never knows how these skirmishes may end, and for the sake of life and death listen to me. Behold I have yet a mother she lives in Marseilles, in the Allee de Meillan, and is called Madame Joliette. In case something should befall me, demand a furlough, go to France and deliver this ring to my mother."
The weather, which had been cloudy, cleared; the breeze swept off the mists, and the blue of the sky appeared in spots; so that when the coucou trundled along the narrow strip of road from Saint-Denis to Pierrefitte, the sun had fairly drunk up the last floating vapors of the diaphanous veil which swathed the scenery of that famous region.
"But, Bobichel, why should that be a misfortune? Perhaps he went on a short journey." "No, both Coucou and Madame Caraman maintain that his disappearance is a misfortune." "Tell me all that has happened." "Then listen. On the evening that the vicomte came back from the soiree, he did not go home directly, but first took an opportunity to rescue a wounded girl." "A wounded girl?" repeated Fanfaro.
A scene of indescribable confusion ensued. The Arabs fled in all directions. In the meantime Coucou at the head of his little company had entered through the eastern door, and, having to avenge the murder of his friends, he struck blows to the right and left. "This for Jacques! This for Pierre! This for Jean! Back, you brown devils!"
"If I have occasion to go there will I be admitted?" "Yes." At this moment a servant rushed into the parlor and exclaimed: "Mademoiselle, Monsieur de Larsagny has suddenly become ill." "I shall come soon," said Carmen, coldly, and nodding to Coucou, she went away. In the banker's room great confusion reigned. The master of the house lay motionless, with closed eyes, on a divan.
About two hours ago my pasha fell down the stairs of his hotel and broke his right leg. The doctor says that it will take six weeks for the leg to be cured. As he was invited to a ball at the Larsagny palace to-night " "Does he know the banker?" interrupted Coucou. "No Mohammed Ben Omar is in Paris for the first time.
"Never mind that," the lady interrupted him; "there, shake hands and think that I am your mother!" "You my mother?" said Coucou laughing, with tears in his eyes; "oh, no such thing; then you must act differently! When I took leave of my poor mother, she took hold of my head and kissed me heartily on both cheeks!
Tell me your name, please, that I may know to whom I owe our rescue." "I am a French colonist, count, and my name is Fanfaro." Coucou and Albert now ran up to the count. "The gentleman is evidently a monkey?" he asked the Zouave. Fanfaro laughed. Mademoiselle Clary now approached the count. "How thankful I am," she said, "to have arrived so opportunely."
The sergeant's cradle, in spite of his brown skin, had not stood in Africa, but in the Faubourg Merceau in Paris. Coucou was the son of a poor washerwoman. His first studies were made on the curbstone and in the gutter, and pretty soon he became the toughest boy in the neighborhood. His mother decided the time had come for her son to enter the army.
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