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Updated: June 13, 2025
On hearing this advice the little woman calmed down immediately, and then, after a moment's reflection, she said to her husband: "To-morrow, before going to your office, you will go to the Maternelle Assurance Company, show them the state your umbrella is in, and make them pay for the damage." M. Oreille fairly jumped, he was so startled at the proposal. "I would not do it for my life!
On hearing this advice the little woman calmed down immediately, and then, after a moment's reflection, she said to her husband: "To-morrow, before going to your office, you will go to the Maternelle Assurance Company, show them the state your umbrella is in, and make them pay for the damage." M. Oreille fairly jumped, he was so startled at the proposal. "I would not do it for my life!
The École Maternelle comes first, the good Mère Cécile bringing up the rear of the procession, holding the smallest children, babies three and four years old, by the hand, three or four more clinging to her skirts, and guiding them across the perilous passage of the bridge over the canal. It is a pretty view from the bridge.
She remained open-mouthed, not knowing what to say next; then, suddenly recollecting that she had left out the main thing, she said hastily: "I am Mme. Oreille; we are assured in La Maternelle, and I have come to claim the value of this damage." "I only want you to have it re-covered," she added quickly, fearing a positive refusal.
She looked at the numbers of the houses; there were still twenty-eight. That was all right, so she had time to consider, and she walked slower and slower. Suddenly she saw a door on which was a large brass plate with "La Maternelle Fire Assurance Office" engraved on it. Already!
The damp had patched the painting on the ceiling and disfigured the whitewashed walls, on which were hung a few pictures a lithograph of the Madonna di Custonaci, a cheap Crucifixion, a reproduction of the design for the monument to Vittorio Emmanuele in Rome, three shiny chromolithographs of English country scenes, representing the four seasons minus one, an absurd French engraving, Education Maternelle and S. Francesco da Paola, with a shell for holy water.
She looked at the numbers of the houses; there were still twenty-eight. That was all right, so she had time to consider, and she walked slower and slower. Suddenly she saw a door on which was a large brass plate with "La Maternelle Fire Assurance Office" engraved on it. Already!
She looked at the numbers of the houses; there were still twenty-eight. That was all right, so she had time to consider, and she walked slower and slower. Suddenly she saw a door on which was a large brass plate with "La Maternelle Fire Assurance Office" engraved on it. Already!
She remained open-mouthed, not knowing what to say next; then, suddenly recollecting that she had left out the main thing, she said hastily: "I am Mme. Oreille; we are assured in La Maternelle, and I have come to claim the value of this damage." "I only want you to have it re-covered," she added quickly, fearing a positive refusal.
She remained open-mouthed, not knowing what to say next; then suddenly forgetting that she had left out the main thing, she said hastily: "I am Mme. Oreille; we are assured in La Maternelle, and I have come to claim the value of this damage." "I only want you to have it re-covered," she added quickly, fearing a positive refusal.
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