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Updated: June 11, 2025
Everybody admired the young couple, who quickly returned home to domestic felicity, having decided simply to take a short trip to Paris, after a few days of retirement. This tete-a-tete was delightful, Maitre Lebrument having shown just the proper amount of delicacy. He had taken as his motto: "Everything comes to him who waits." He knew how to be at the same time patient and energetic.
He was carrying a large portfolio under his arm, just like Lebrument. She jumped out of the carriage. "Henry!" she cried. He stopped, astonished: "Jeanne! Here all alone! What are you doing? Where have you come from?" Her eyes full of tears, she stammered: "My husband has just got lost!" "Lost! Where?" "On an omnibus." "On an omnibus?" Weeping, she told him her whole adventure.
The driver extended his hand to his landlord, and the baron pressed it warmly, asking: "Well, Maitre Lebrument, how are you?" "Always the same, M'sieu le Baron." We jumped into this swinging hencoop perched on two enormous wheels, and the young horse, after a violent swerve, started into a gallop, pitching us into the air like balls.
As soon as they were in front of the Saint-Lazare Station, Maitre Lebrument said to his wife: "Dearie, let us first go over to the Boulevard and get something to eat; then we can quietly return and get our trunk and bring it to the hotel." She immediately assented. "Oh! yes. Let's eat at the restaurant. Is it far?" He answered: "Yes, it's quite a distance, but we will take the omnibus."
The driver extended his hand to his landlord, and the baron pressed it warmly, asking: "Well, Maitre Lebrument, how are you?" "Always the same, M'sieu le Baron." We jumped into this swinging hencoop perched on two enormous wheels, and the young horse, after a violent swerve, started into a gallop, pitching us into the air like balls.
Maitre Lebrument said in his turn: "If you don't mind, M'sieu le Baron, I'm going to bed. I am not used to staying up late." The baron extended his hand toward him and said: "Go, my friend," in so cordial a tone that I said, as soon as the man had disappeared: "He is devoted to you, this farmer?" "Better than that, my dear fellow!
Lebrument whispered into his wife's ear: "What a bother! I won't be able to smoke." She answered in a low voice "It annoys me too, but not an account of your cigar." The whistle blew and the train started. The trip lasted about an hour, during which time they did not say very much to each other, as the two old ladies did not go to sleep.
As soon as they were in front of the Saint-Lazare Station, Maitre Lebrument said to his wife: "Dearie, let us first go over to the Boulevard and get something to eat; then we can quietly return and get our trunk and bring it to the hotel." She immediately assented. "Oh! yes. Let's eat at the restaurant. Is it far?" He answered: "Yes, it's quite a distance, but we will take the omnibus."
The marriage of Maitre Simon Lebrument with Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier was a surprise to no one. Maitre Lebrument had bought out the practice of Maitre Papillon; naturally, he had to have money to pay for it; and Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier had three hundred thousand francs clear in currency, and in bonds payable to bearer. Maitre Lebrument was a handsome man.
His success was rapid and complete. After four days, Madame Lebrument adored her husband. She could not get along without him. She would sit on his knees, and taking him by the ears she would say: "Open your mouth and shut your eyes." He would open his mouth wide and partly close his eyes, and he would try to nip her fingers as she slipped some dainty between his teeth.
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