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I exclaimed, "I had not the least idea in the wold that Jeanne had a guardian!" Madame de Gabry looked at me with visible surprise. She had not expected to find the old man quite so simple. She resumed: "The guardian of Jeanne Alexandre is Maitre Mouche, notary at Levallois-Perret. I am afraid you will not be able to come to any understanding with him; for he is a very serious person."
Her grandfather, Pere Niseron, is a man who would let his throat be cut sooner than tell a lie; he would die of hunger in a baker's shop; he has the strength of his opinions, and the girl was brought up to all such principles. La Pechina would consider herself your equal; for the old man has made her, as he says, a republican, just as Pere Fourchon has made Mouche a bohemian.
Six o'clock was striking on the steeple of Guerande as Calyste entered his own house, where Mariotte gave him his belated dinner; after which, he played mouche in gloomy meditation.
The means of escape were offered us. The only question remaining was how to make use of them. The boat hanging on astern was about 25 feet long. I had often examined her on board the Mouche. She was in good condition, and not a bad sea-boat, I judged from her appearance.
He sees that I patter of Miss Sandus. What perspicuity. And he just a mortal man, like anybody nay, by all accounts, just a bluff country squire. Ah, what a noble understanding. Well, then, my dear Hawkshaw, since there's no concealing anything from you, fine mouche, allez! I own up. I patter of Miss Sandus." "Do you happen to know where Madame Torrebianca comes from?" Anthony asked.
Do you think that any office can go on with clerks like you? I started at once and went down the Seine. It was a day like this, and I took the Mouche, to go as far as Saint Cloud. Ah! what a good thing it would have been if my chief had refused me permission to leave the office that day! "I seemed to myself to expand in the sun.
Maitre Mouche continued to examine all the various aspects and surfaces of his cork without making any further manifestation. I was very indignant; and I know that my cheeks must have been extremely red, if I could judge by the flush of heat which I felt rise to my face.
I shall go to see Monsieur Mouche the very first thing to-morrow morning; and if he turns out to be what I think he is that is to say, a consummate rascal I shall very soon find means of making him harmless, even if the devil himself should take sides with him. For everything depends on him.
Durtal called, but Mouche took refuge under the bed and refused to come out. "You see he is rather bashful. He has never seen a woman." "Oh, would you try to make me think you have never received a woman here?" He swore that he never had, that she was the first.... "And you were not really anxious that this first should come?" He blushed. "Why do you say that?" She made a vague gesture.
Besides, she is punished in petty disgusting ways; and hers is one of those generous natures which will be forced into revolt by such continual humiliation." "Alas!" replied Maitre Mouche, "she must be trained to take her part in the struggle of life. One does not come into this world simply to amuse oneself, and to do just what one pleases."
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