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I know no one but Dubois whom I could trust to procure a good femme-de-chambre; only I do not want him to learn from her what you might not wish him to know." "That will not be the case, for I will take another maid as soon as I am in France."
Miser though he be, in a general sense, there's one class with whom he's generous enough. Il a une douzaine des maitresses! Besides, you must remember that Monsieur Dominique is a bachelor. He wants a good housekeeper a femme-de-chambre. Come, friends, I have heard something un petit chose. I'll lay a wager the miser outbids every one of you, even rich generous Marigny here!"
Whilst I was lamenting this with the lady's femme-de-chambre, who was nearly as much distressed as her mistress, I saw in a detached closet a great many machines covered with paper, and all of different shapes. On inquiry, I was informed that the following Monday was the lady's birthday, which they were to celebrate with fireworks.
There was enough for both but these digressions are interminable. The party got under way at near four o'clock: the ladies in the litter, the French femme-de-chambre manfully caracoling on a grey horse; the cavaliers, like your humble servant, on their high saddles; the domestics, flunkeys, guides, and grooms, on all sorts of animals, some fourteen in all.
And that relations should travel together, the young lady being protected by her femme-de-chambre; that surely, as every one must allow, was perfectly right and proper.
And everything was bright and hard, the air was hard, the light was hard, the ground under our feet was hard. The door at which Mills rang came open almost at once. The maid who opened it was short, dark, and slightly pockmarked. For the rest, an obvious “femme-de-chambre,” and very busy.
The painting of the panels of the citoyenne’s apartment, which she vacated for that purpose, progressed slowly; and M. Paul de Sénanges, guided by the ground-plan, and aided by Berthe, had discovered the spot in which the jewels of price, almost the last remnants of the princely wealth of the Sénanges, had been hidden by the femme-de-chambre who had perished with her mistress, having confided a general statement of the fact to a priest, for transmission to the Marquis.
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