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He soon joined her, and was beginning to say pretty things to her, when the door of the hay-loft opened and the schoolmaster appeared, and asked: 'What are you doing up there, Sigisbert? Feeling sure that he would be caught, the young schoolmaster lost his presence of mind and replied stupidly: 'I came up here to rest a little amongst the bundles of hay, Monsieur Grabu.
"When the schoolmaster heard the whispering, he continued: 'Why, you are not by yourself? 'Yes, I am, Monsieur Grabu! 'But you are not, for you are talking. 'I swear I am, Monsieur Grabu. 'I will soon find out, the old man replied, and double locking the door, he went down to get a light.
"When the schoolmaster heard the whispering, he continued: 'Why, you are not by yourself? 'Yes, I am, Monsieur Grabu! 'But you are not, for you are talking. 'I swear I am, Monsieur Grabu. 'I will soon find out, the old man replied, and double-locking the door, he went down to get a light.
He soon joined her, and he was beginning to say pretty things to her, when the door of the hayloft opened and the schoolmaster appeared, and asked: 'What are you doing up there, Sigisbert? Feeling sure that he would be caught, the young school-master lost his presence of mind and replied stupidly: 'I came up here to rest a little among the bundles of hay, Monsieur Grabu.
"Old Grabu found nobody, and went down again in great surprise, and a quarter of an hour later, Monsieur Sigisbert came to me and related his adventure. The girl had remained at the foot of the wall unable to get up, as she had fallen from the second story, and I went with him to fetch her.
King Charles was an admirer of everything French, and he appears, according to Pepys, to have aroused the wrath of Banister by giving prominence to a French fiddler named Grabu, who is said to have been an "impudent pretender." Banister lost his place for saying, either to or in the hearing of the king, that English performers on the violin were superior to those of France.
All the girls ran after him, and he acted the disdainful, and besides that, he was very much afraid of his superior, the schoolmaster, old Grabu, who occasionally got out of bed the wrong foot first. "Old Grabu already employed pretty Hortense, who has just died here, and who was afterwards nicknamed Clochette.
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