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What a charming complexion you have! such a lovely pallor!" The grisette, who had known what poverty was, gave a bitter little laugh: "Oh, my pallor! that is nothing! It is not the pallor of wealth." Then, recovering her good-humor at once, she continued: "Tell me, Monsieur Amedee, does this big Margot, whom you began to pay attentions to a little while ago, please you?" Amedee quickly denied it.
Julia Neal Worthington called her girl "Grisette," explaining that they had always had a Grisette about the house since her mother first went to housekeeping in Peoria, Illinois, and it sounded so natural to hear the name that they always gave it to a new servant.
And the interview of the lady and the grisette began in this fashion. After a minute's hesitation, Rose-Pompon said to Adrienne, whose heart was beating violently: "I will tell you directly, madame, what I have on my mind. I should not have gone out of my way to seek you, but, as I happen to fall in with you, it is very natural I should take advantage of it."
"Well, then, let us say no more about it," said d'Artagnan; "and let us burn this letter, which, no doubt, announces to you some fresh infidelity of your GRISETTE or your chambermaid." "What letter?" cried Aramis, eagerly. "A letter which was sent to your abode in your absence, and which was given to me for you." "But from whom is that letter?"
The young girl well understood that this was really the parting of the ways. If she turned toward her uncle, she would be forever classed among the aristocracy. If she chose her mother, who, though married, was essentially a grisette, then she must live with grisettes, and find her friends among the friends who visited her mother. She could not belong to both worlds.
A grisette may love according to her fancy, that is intelligible enough, but you have a pretty fortune, a family, a name and a place at Court, and you ought not to fling them out of the window. And what have we been asking you to do to keep them all? To manoeuvre carefully instead of falling foul of social conventions. Lord!
A star reflected in a gutter will reveal to him an immense nocturnal poem; and he will breathe all the intoxication of summer in the full-blown rose which the grisette from the next house lets fall from her hair. Amedee had had the good fortune of being born in that delicious and melancholy suburb of Paris which had not yet become "Haussmannized," and was full of wild and charming nooks.
Amid the mother's moans, a doctor certified to death by asphyxia, through the injection of black blood into the pulmonary system, which settled the matter. The inquest over, and the certificates signed, by six o'clock the same evening authority was given to bury the grisette. The rector of the parish, however, refused to receive her into the church or to pray for her.
"Shall it be Versailles?" suggested Josephine. "Heaven forbid!" Josephine opened her large eyes. "Mon Dieu!" said she. "What is there so very dreadful in Versailles?" I made no reply. I was passing all the suburbs in review before my mind's eye, Bellevue, Enghien, Fontenay-aux-Roses, St. Germains, Sceaux; even Fontainebleau and Compiègne. The grisette pouted, and glanced at the clock.
They are heartily glad to find employment, and ask no higher good-fortune than to serve acceptably. As to drawing comparisons between themselves and their masters, they never seem to think they belong to the same race. I saw a pretty grisette once stop to look at a show-window where there was a lay-figure completely covered with all manner of trusses.
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