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Updated: June 11, 2025
"You have been beating the bush for a will-o'-the-wisp." Monsieur Gravier and Gatien exchanged questioning glances which were meant to convey, "Is there not something offensive to us in that speech? Ought we to laugh or to be angry?" "If Dinah is virtuous," said the journalist in a whisper to Bianchon, "she is worth an effort on my part to pluck the fruit of her first love."
The blast of the great Revolution blew down most of the statues in France, and the wind has never set very strongly towards putting them up again. The embossed and crocketed cupolas which crown the towers of Saint Gatien are not very pure in taste; but, like a good many impurities, they have a certain character.
When, ten days later, Madame de la Baudraye saw in her drawing-room at La Baudraye, Monsieur de Clagny, Gatien, and Gravier, she found an opportunity of saying to each in turn: "I owe it to Monsieur Lousteau that I discovered that I had not been loved for my own sake." And what noble speeches she uttered, on man, on the nature of his feelings, on the end of his base passions, and so forth.
The woman has evidently dried up her mother like a partridge left to roast at too fierce a fire." Gatien de Boirouge contrived to let Madame de la Baudraye know what the journalist had said of her in the course of the dinner, which was copious, not to say splendid, and the lady took care not to talk too much while it was proceeding. This lack of conversation betrayed Gatien's indiscretion.
Madame de la Baudraye would have to hoodwink her mother, her husband, her maid, and her mother's maid; that is too much to do. I acquit her." "Well with more reason because her husband never 'quits her," said Gatien, laughing at his own wit. "We can easily remember two or three stories that will make Dinah quake," said Lousteau.
Nevertheless, taking pity on me, my lord the Archbishop caused the relics of St. Gatien to be brought, and the moment the shrine had touched my bed the said Succubus was obliged to depart, leaving an odour of sulphur and of hell, which made the throats of my servants, friends, and others sore for a whole day.
Gatien, who during Madame de la Baudraye's long absence had been to Paris to learn the art of lionnerie or dandyism, was supposed to have a good chance of finding favor in the eyes of the disenchanted "Superior Woman." Others bet on the tutor; Madame Piedefer urged the claims of religion.
Philippe," said the good prelate, "thou wilt then go to the devil and displease God, like all our cardinals," and the master, with sorrow, began to pray St. Gatien, the patron saint of Innocents, to save his servant. He made him kneel down beside him, telling him to recommend himself also to St.
"I think that the clever woman of Sancerre is simply the greatest chatterbox," replied the journalist. "A woman who wants to see you deputy!" cried Gatien. "An angel!" "Forgive me, I forgot you were in love with her," said Lousteau. "Forgive the cynicism of an old scamp. Ask Bianchon; I have no illusions left. I see things as they are.
Imagine their astonishment and Gatien's delight when all four, candle in hand, and with hardly any clothes on, came to look at the hairs, and found them in perfect preservation on both doors. "Is it the same wax?" asked Monsieur Gravier. "Are they the same hairs?" asked Lousteau. "Yes," replied Gatien. "This quite alters the matter!" cried Lousteau.
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