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"If crowds of people would come to see the sources of the Avonne, you'd be rich, Grandpa Fourchon," said Marie. "Yes," he said, drinking the last glassful the bottle contained, "and I've played the sham otter so long, the live otters have got angry, and one of them came right between my legs to-day; Mouche caught it, and I am to get twenty francs for it."
Pendant une quinzaine, du 25 mai au 10 juin, j'ai pris a la mouche 82 truites pesant 42 livres. This was the sport to which he had particularly invited Miss Reeve in January, and which, he goes on to say, has given him the idea of going to Norway in August. As to this, he begs Reeve to make some inquiries for him, and concludes Veuillez me croire votre bien affectionne,
I shame to say that his brotherhood to her, for whom I would have perilled my life, restrained me not from something very like a hearty commendation of him to the powers that burn "Down, dogs, there down," continued he, and in a moment after entered the conservatory flushed and heated with the chace. "Mouche is the winner two to one and so, Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pounds."
But I had the pleasure of hearing Maitre Mouche and Mademoiselle Prefere discourse upon virtue. I said the pleasure I ought to have said the shame; for the sentiments to which they gave expression soared far beyond the range of my vulgar nature.
I wondered within myself whether Maitre Mouche had called upon me only for the purpose of expressing his virtuous misanthropy; but all at once I heard words of a more consoling character issue from his lips.
His hair, in common with that of other soldiers, was cut very short behind, but he frizzed it on the top of his head, brushing up the ends with a dandy air; on it his foraging cap was jauntily tilted to one side. Compared to the peasants, who were mostly in rags, like Mouche and Fourchon, he seemed gorgeous in his linen trousers, boots, and short waistcoat.
"Will Monsieur du Halga join us this evening?" asked Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel, taking off her knitted mittens after the usual exchange of greetings. "Yes, mademoiselle; I met him taking his dog to walk on the mall," replied the rector. "Ha! then our mouche will be lively to-night. Last evening we were only four."
"He would soon sell them," answered the abbe, in a low tone; "besides, my salary does not enable me to begin on that line." "Monsieur le cure is right," said the general, looking at Mouche. The policy of the little scamp was to appear not to hear what they were saying when it was against himself.
"Ah, Monsieur le cure!" cried Blondet, "if you bring the Almighty against me " "But what is all this? Who is here?" said the countess, hastily. "Mouche, madame, the boy who goes about with old Fourchon," said the footman. "Bring him in that is, if Madame will allow it?" said the general; "he may amuse you." Mouche presently appeared, in his usual state of comparative nudity.
After having amused himself with our anxiety for a reasonable time, the good fellow added: "Maitre Mouche is no longer at Levallois. Maitre Mouche has gone away from France. The day after to-morrow will make just eight days since he decamped, taking with him all the money of his clients a tolerably large sum. I found the office closed.
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