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"Is it true," cried Nanon, rushing in alarmed, "that mademoiselle is to be kept on bread and water for the rest of her life?" "What does that signify, Nanon?" said Eugenie tranquilly. "Goodness! do you suppose I'll eat frippe when the daughter of the house is eating dry bread? No, no!" "Don't say a word about all this, Nanon," said Eugenie. "I'll be as mute as a fish; but you'll see!"
"Then they must eat frippe?" said Nanon. Frippe is a word of the local lexicon of Anjou, and means any accompaniment of bread, from butter which is spread upon it, the commonest kind of frippe, to peach preserve, the most distinguished of all the frippes; those who in their childhood have licked the frippe and left the bread, will comprehend the meaning of Nanon's speech.
"No," answered Grandet, "they eat neither bread nor frippe; they are something like marriageable girls." After ordering the meals for the day with his usual parsimony, the goodman, having locked the closets containing the supplies, was about to go towards the fruit-garden, when Nanon stopped him to say,
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