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She invited her friends to dinner, and with the few pence that remained she bought some boxes of matches, boiled them, and drank the water. No one knew why; some said it was love. I went to London in an exuberant necktie, a tiny hat; I wore large trousers and a Capoul beard; looking, I believe, as unlike an Englishman as a drawing by Grévin.
Beneath the chevalier's room there lived a paralytic, Madame Lardot's grandfather, an old buccaneer named Grevin, who had served under Admiral Simeuse in India, and was now stone-deaf. As for Madame Lardot, who occupied the other lodging on the first floor, she had so great a weakness for persons of condition that she may well have been thought blind to the ways of the chevalier.
"I am not on such terms with him as to be in his confidence." "Then you have not seen him?" "I did not know he was here till I got back from my rounds in the forest," said Michu, reloading his gun. "He has sent to Arcis for Monsieur Grevin," said Violette; "they are scheming something." "If you are going round by Cinq-Cygne, take me up behind you," said the bailiff. "I'm going there."
Sure of the active co-operation of the prefect of the Aube, who sent messengers to all the surrounding prefectures asking them to search for the five abductors and the senator, Lechesneau began his work by verifying the first facts. This was soon done by the help of two such legal heads as those of Grevin and the justice of peace.
"Unanimous, to-day," remarked Monsieur Martener. "Oh!" exclaimed Pigoult, "the general sentiment of the electors is for one of their own townsmen. Whom can you oppose to Simon Giguet, a man who has just spent two hours in explaining the word progress." "Take old Grevin!" cried the sub-prefect. "He has no such ambition," replied Pigoult. "But we must first of all consult the Comte de Gondreville.
In 1392 the schoolboys of Angiers performed Robin and Marian, "as was their annual custom"; and in 1477 the scholars of Pontoise represented "a certain moralitie or farce, as is their custom." In 1558 the comedies of Jacques Grévin were acted at the College of Beauvais at Paris; but it is in the next century that we come upon the most interesting case.
As soon as this answer of old Grevin had circulated through Arcis, a reaction against him set in.
The caution which Malin displayed in talking with Grevin in the open air, Laurence applied to her every action. She met the emissaries and conferred with them either at various points in the Nodesme forest, or beyond the valley of the Cinq-Cygne, between the villages of Sezanne and Brienne.
"But what do you mean, my dear Meme, I don't quite understand.... You didn't go straight from her house to the Musee Grevin? Surely you went somewhere else first? No? That is very odd! You don't know how amusing you are, my dear Meme. But what an odd idea of hers to go on to the Chat Noir afterwards; it was her idea, I suppose? No? Yours? That's strange.
Tears came into Michu's eyes; he stood rooted to the floor. "Were there any witnesses when you aimed at Malin?" asked the Marquis de Chargeboeuf. "Grevin the notary was talking with him, and that prevented my killing him very fortunately, as Madame la Comtesse knows," said Michu, looking at his mistress.
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