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Jacquot. "I wonder who he is." "He shall be our little brother," said Blondel; and both the boys clapped their hands very softly. In a little while the child awoke. He seemed to feel quite well and strong. He sat up in the bed and looked around. "You want your mother, don't you?" said Mrs. Jacquot. "She must be very uneasy about you. Tell us who she is, and we will carry you to her."
"This prayer," she added, "is difficult to read because the words of it are very small and hardly divided, but happily it is quite sufficient, when in labour-pains, to apply it like a plaster on the place where the most pain is felt and it operates just as well, and rather better, than when it is recited. I had the proof of it, sir, when my son Jacquot was born, who is here present."
I gave her your thirty francs' remittance and said that you had sent it her; and the poor woman remembers you day and night in her prayers. So, you see, I have put that money in another sort of savings' bank; but there it is our hearts that get the interest. "Good-bye, dear Jacquot. Write to me often, and always remember the good God, and your old mother,
"Count Rostov asks you to come to dinner today," said he, after a considerable pause which made Pierre feel uncomfortable. "Ah, Count Rostov!" exclaimed Pierre joyfully. "Then you are his son, Ilya? Only fancy, I didn't know you at first. Do you remember how we went to the Sparrow Hills with Madame Jacquot?... It's such an age..."
"The behaviour of Madame d'Anquetil is unknown to you, and it appears that I spoke to her in the right way, because she said to me: 'Don't be troubled, Madame Menetrier; I will employ my influence in favour of your son; be sure of my zeal. And you know, Leonard, that we received before the expiration of two months the assurance that our Jacquot could return unmolested to Paris."
First one tyrant and then another rose up to tell us what we should do, to batten himself off the wretched commonwealth, and then go to the guillotine before his successor. As a good citizen I should have turned these jewels and stones and coins over to the state. But I was acting the part of Jacquot, and as an honest peasant I whipped them under my blouse and carried them away.
"I include by begging you to take care of yourself if you wish to do me good; for nothing makes me feel so well as to think that you want for nothing. "Your son, from the bottom of my heart, This is the answer that the portress dictated to me: "MY GOOD JACQUOT: It makes me very happy to see that your heart is still as true as ever, and that you will never shame those who have brought you up.
"Who is that child?" Then she saw that the child's face was very pale and that he neither opened his eyes nor moved. "Oh, what has happened? Where did you find him?" "I'll tell you all about it," answered Jacquot. "But first get a blanket and warm it, quick. That on the children's bed is best." "What a beautiful child!" said the mother, as she hurried to do his bidding.
"There is no hurry about that," said the child. "But they will be looking for you." "So much the better, let them look. My mother will not be worried. She has other things to do, and no time to attend to me." "What! Your own mother, and no time to attend to her child?" "Yes, madam. But she has servants to attend to me." "Servants! Yes, I think so," said Jacquot.
"How did these clothes come on me?" cried the child. "They are not mine. You have stolen my clothes and have given me these ugly things." "Stolen!" said the charcoal man, angrily. "What do you mean, you ungrateful little rascal?" "Hush, Jacquot," said his wife, kindly. "He doesn't know what he says. Wait till he rests a while, and then he'll be in a better humor." The child was indeed very tired.
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