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Updated: May 16, 2025
"She is right," said Madame Grandet; "it ought to have been mended long ago. Yesterday Eugenie nearly twisted her ankle." "Here," said Grandet to Nanon, seeing that she looked quite pale, "as it is Eugenie's birthday, and you came near falling, take a little glass of ratafia to set you right." "Faith!
Obeying the desire to gossip over their mutual interests, all the upper and middle-class wine-growers in Saumur met at Monsieur des Grassins, where terrible imprecations were being fulminated against the ex-mayor. Nanon was spinning, and the whirr of her wheel was the only sound heard beneath the gray rafters of that silent hall.
Grandet held his knife over the dressing-case and hesitated as he looked at his daughter. "Are you capable of doing it, Eugenie?" he said. "Yes, yes!" said the mother. "She'll do it if she says so!" cried Nanon. "Be reasonable, monsieur, for once in your life." The old man looked at the gold and then at his daughter alternately for an instant. Madame Grandet fainted.
You didn't know your uncle," said her father, giving her one of those hungry tigerish looks he doubtless threw upon his piles of gold. "But, monsieur," said Nanon, "who wouldn't feel pity for the poor young man, sleeping there like a wooden shoe, without knowing what's coming?" "I didn't speak to you, Nanon. Hold your tongue!"
A foot-warmer, filled with embers from the kitchen fire, which la Grande Nanon contrived to save for them, enabled Madame and Mademoiselle Grandet to bear the chilly mornings and evenings of April and October.
"What is that?" exclaimed Charles, laughing, as he pointed to an oblong pot of brown earthenware, glazed on the inside, and edged with a fringe of ashes, from the bottom of which the coffee-grounds were bubbling up and falling in the boiling liquid. "It is boiled coffee," said Nanon. "Ah! my dear aunt, I shall at least leave one beneficent trace of my visit here. You are indeed behind the age!
Be not disquieted for a moment. 'I will I will disquiet myself, panted Eustacie, 'unless you tell me what is amiss. 'Nothing amiss, said Nanon, gruffly. 'Madame will give thanks for this fair gift of a daughter. It must be owned the words felt chill. She had never thought of this!
There were very many households in Saumur where the servants were better treated, but where the masters received far less satisfaction in return. Thus it was often said: "What have the Grandets ever done to make their Grande Nanon so attached to them? She would go through fire and water for their sake!"
"Here, Nanon, carry them away!" she said. When she looked again towards her cousin she was still blushing, but her looks could at least deceive, and did not betray the excess of joy which innundated her heart; yet the eyes of both expressed the same sentiment as their souls flowed together in one thought, the future was theirs.
She had never suspected that all this time Maitre Gardon had been hidden in the refectory below, and still less did she guess that soon after her departure the old man was installed as her Lady's chief attendant. It was impossible that Nanon should stay with Eustacie; she had her day's work to attend to, and her absence would have excited suspicion.
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