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Being now in a position to bestow a great number of places, Rabourdin, on meeting once more his faithful subordinate, hastened to offer him a position both easy and lucrative. "Mossieu," said Phellion, "your benevolence touches me and honors me, but my frankness owes you an avowal, which I beg you not to take in ill part: I do not believe in 'railways, as the English call them."
"That's an opinion to which you have every right," said Rabourdin, smiling; "but, meanwhile, until the contrary is proved, we pay the employees in our office well, and I should be glad to have you with me in that capacity. I know by experience that you are a man on whom I can count." "Mossieu," returned the great citizen, "I did my duty at that time, and nothing more.
And one fine evening, as the brigadier of the custom-house officers was alone in the shop with Bistaud's wife and was squeezing her waist, she said to him abruptly: "Do you really want to have something to do with me, Môssieu Fernand?" He kissed her on the lips as he replied: "Do I really want to? I would give my stripes for it; so you see...."
I told him so and wondered what his thoughts could be, for clasping my hands with as much force as he possessed and that is at times a wonderful force in the clasp of the dying he said with a great effort: "If dat is so, mossieu, if dat is so, I have O le bon Dieu I have mossieu, I have O if dat is true" He fell back and I caught no more. The excitement proved too much for my poor friend.
This is a rencontre! by which he means that he has met one of the three unholy reptiles, the snake, the toad, or the lizard, although it was hidden under the stone or stump. 'Marie, said I to an old farm woman who was hobbling about with a rheumatic leg, 'what is the matter? Oh, mossieu, said she, 'it's a rencontre. I sat down the other day upon a stone.
Once more I felt that honest and affectionate hand grasp, once more I met those clear and steady blue eyes, and I noted the flush of pride which overspread his face when I told him that I had received his letter and marvelled at it. "Mossieu know so much and Etienne so ver little."
She had been given house-room first by her father, then by the Henrys, and once more had had to go back to the paternal roof. "It was nothing for Mossieu Henry in the long run," was his stepmother's comment.
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