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Updated: June 26, 2025
Jessamine, honeysuckle and linden filled the air with fragrance. For Gracieuse and Ramuntcho, it was one of those exquisite hours which later, in the anguishing sadness of awakenings, one recalls with a regret at once heart-breaking and charming.
But the boys say to themselves that they have not been seen coming, and they prefer to sit near their sweethearts, by the side of the brook, on the gigantic roots. And, as if by chance, the two couples manage not to bother one another, to remain hidden from one another by rocks, by branches. There then, they talk at length in a low voice, Arrochkoa with Pantchika, Ramuntcho with Gracieuse.
Ramuntcho, sombre, observes them both; he had not been able to see yet the face of Gracieuse, so severely her headdress framed it.
Then he goes to Gracieuse, to ask her with a brusque anxiety: "To-night, at eight o'clock, say if you will be on the square to dance with me?" For some time, every Sunday had brought to him the same fear of being deprived of dancing with her in the evening. In the week he hardly ever saw her.
The good odor of plants impregnated his clothes, his waistcoat which he never wore, but used as a pillow or a blanket and Gracieuse would say to him at night: "I know where you went last night, for you smell of mint of the mountain above Mendizpi" or: "You smell of absinthe of the Subernoa morass."
Soon Etchezar will appear to him and, before seeing it, the image of it becomes more and more precise in him, recalled and enlivened in his memory by the aspect of the surroundings. Empty now, all this land, where Gracieuse is no more, empty and sad as a beloved home where the great Reaper has passed!
In the middle of the limpid penumbra may be distinguished the women, the pretty girls seated on benches in front of the houses, under the vaults of the plane-trees; they are only clear forms, their Sunday costumes make white spots in the twilight, pink spots and the pale blue spot which Ramuntcho looks at is the new gown of Gracieuse.
And seeing him turn his head, blushing and embarrassed, she acquired a sudden certainty: "It is well, now I know. Oh! I know! She was moved even more than he, at her discovery of this great secret. The idea had not even come to her that it was not Gracieuse, that it might be another girl. She was too far-seeing.
At Geneva he had permitted himself various fond imaginings of Mimi and Musette as they might disclose themselves in Paris it was useless, all, to expect the encounter in this strenuous little stronghold of Calvinism; but Mimi and Musette, the actual, the contemporaneous, once met at short range, were far, far from the gracieuse and mignonne creations of Murger and of 1830.
La goutte le genait quelquefois, et d'annee en annee ses visites devenaient plus frequentes. 'Il avait bati au bord la mer, en face de l'ile de Wight, sous un climat doux, une charmante villa, ou il aimait a s'enfermer avec ses livres, poursuivant ses travaux aupres de la digne et gracieuse compagne de sa vie.
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