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For six months she had studied, without seeming to do so, the culinary operations that made Fanchette a cordon-bleu worthy of cooking for a doctor. In the matter of choice living, doctors are on a par with bishops. The doctor had brought Fanchette's talents to perfection. In the provinces the lack of occupation and the monotony of existence turn all activity of mind towards the kitchen.
Off flew the peignoir, and, with the help of the excited maids, Kitty slipped into her dress. Ten times, over did she declare that it was hopeless, that it didn't fit in the least, that it wasn't one bit what she had ordered, that she couldn't and wouldn't go out in it, that it was simply scandalous, and Fanchette should never be paid a penny.
'You have need to, she answered bitterly, yet with a changed countenance, or I was mistaken, 'if your story be true, sir. 'Ay, that you have! the woman beside her echoed. 'Hoity toity, indeed! Here is a fuss about nothing. You call yourself a gentleman, and wear such a doublet as 'Peace, Fanchette, mademoiselle said imperiously.
I muttered, 'Good evening, mademoiselle, and that was all I could say I who had frightened the burly Maignan a few minutes before! Seeing, I have no doubt, the effect she produced on me, she maintained for some time an embarrassing silence. At length she said, frigidly, 'Perhaps M. de Marsac will sit, Fanchette. Place a chair for him.
I believe a very brief reflection would have recalled me to myself and my duty; but the opportunity was not given me, for I had scarcely reached the head of the stairs before Fanchette came after me, and called to me in a whisper to stop. She held a taper in her hand, and this she raised to my face, smiling at the disorder which she doubtless read there.
They thought Holliday had blinded him; had closed both his eyes so that he could not see at all, did they? Well, he could! Oh, he was foolin' 'em. Champion! Once he'd looked that word up in a dictionary, just after he whipped Fanchette; looked it up a little sheepishly, though he was alone at the time. Champion: One who by beating all rivals has obtained an acknowledged supremacy.
Would it not be charming, ma belle?" and Catharine, smiling at the picture drawn so eloquently, would enter into the spirit of the project, and say, "Ah! Louis, that would be pleasant." "If we had but my father's rifle now," said Hector, "and old Wolfe." "Yes, and Fanchette, dear little Fanchette, that trees the partridges and black squirrels," said Louis.
If, on the other hand, you decide to trust yourself to me, I swear, on the honour of a gentleman, to be worthy of the trust to serve you truly and protect you to the last! I can say no more. She trembled, looking from me to the door, on which some one had just begun to knock loudly. That seemed to decide her. Her lips apart, her eyes full of excitement, she turned hastily to Fanchette.
'Thank you, Fanchette, I I am rather tired. I will undress myself to-night you can go to bed. 'But if mademoiselle is so tired, will she not permit me to assist her? The suggestion was reasonable enough, and kindly too; for, to say the least of it, she had as much cause for fatigue as I had. I hesitated.
Fanchette, the cook, was the only person in Issoudun who thought it wrong that Flore Brazier should be queen over Jean-Jacques Rouget and his home. She protested against the immorality of the connection, and took a tone of injured virtue; the fact being that she was humiliated by having, at her age, a crab-girl for a mistress, a child who had been brought barefoot into the house.
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