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Jacquotte has never missed asking me if I will take it for these twelve years past, and she will certainly interrupt us. Do you care about it, captain?" "No, thank you." In another moment Benassis returned. "I was born in a little town in Languedoc," the doctor resumed. "My father had been settled there for many years, and there my early childhood was spent.
He was tired; Jacquotte noticed the purplish flush on his face, but the weather was so very cold that she would not get ready a warm foot-bath for him, as she usually did when she saw that the blood had gone to his head. So she has been wailing, poor thing, through her tears for these two days past, 'If I had only given him a foot-bath, he would be living now!
It was on account of a defect, which any one else would have found intolerable, that Benassis had taken her into his service. Jacquotte had a mind to rule the house, and a woman who would rule his house was the very person that the doctor wanted.
"So the best furniture is put into your room, where a thick carpet is laid down; there are hangings on the walls, and a clock and wax candles; and for you Jacquotte will do her best, she has no doubt brought a night-light, and a pair of new slippers and some milk, and her warming-pan too for your benefit.
I wandered out and picked a quantity of mushrooms and white truffles, and took them over to Jacquotte; she was very pleased, for some people are coming to dinner. I was so glad that I thought of it; something seemed to tell me to go to look for them." She began to ply her needle again. "You have a very pretty house here, mademoiselle," said Genestas, addressing her.
I do not feel at all well. Nicolle said, 'Shall I go and wake Jacquotte? And M. Benassis answered, 'Oh! no, no, and came upstairs. "I said, 'I have your tea here, all ready for you, and he smiled at me in the way that you know, and said, 'Thank you, Adrien. That was his last smile. In a moment he began to take off his cravat, as though he could not breathe.
You always ask people to dinner without telling me beforehand, and you think that everything is settled as soon as you have called for Jacquotte! You are not going to have the gentleman sit in the kitchen, are you? Is not the salon to be unlocked and a fire to be lighted? Nicolle is there, and will see after everything.
"Up already, Commandant Bluteau?" cried Benassis, as he came upon his guest. "You hear the drum beat in the morning wherever you go, even in the country! You are a regular soldier!" "Are you all right?" replied Genestas, holding out his hand with a friendly gesture. "I am never really all right," answered Benassis, half merrily, half sadly. "Did you sleep well, sir?" inquired Jacquotte.
"Very good, sir," Benassis broke in; "M. Gravier's room is in readiness. Come in." They went into the house, the doctor flinging open the door with an eagerness that Genestas attributed to his pleasure at receiving a boarder. "Jacquotte!" Benassis called out. "This gentleman will dine with us." "But would it not be as well for us to settle about the payment?"
Jacquotte," said Benassis, turning to his housekeeper, "bring in some wine and biscuits. We will both of us have our night-cap after our separate fashions." "That tea must be very bad for you!" Genestas remarked.
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