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Updated: June 16, 2025
I've earned it," said Nanon; "most people would have broken the bottle; but I'd sooner have broken my elbow holding it up high." "Poor Nanon!" said Grandet, filling a glass. "Did you hurt yourself?" asked Eugenie, looking kindly at her. "No, I didn't fall; I threw myself back on my haunches." "Well! as it is Eugenie's birthday," said Grandet, "I'll have the step mended.
As she turned over in her mind some stratagem by which to get the cake, a quarrel an event as rare as the sight of swallows in winter broke out between la Grande Nanon and Grandet. Armed with his keys, the master had come to dole out provisions for the day's consumption. "Is there any bread left from yesterday?" he said to Nanon. "Not a crumb, monsieur."
But Monsieur Cruchot told me he bought Froidfond two years ago; that may have pinched him." Eugenie, not being able to understand the question of her father's fortune, stopped short in her calculations. "He didn't even see me, the darling!" said Nanon, coming back from her errand. "He's stretched out like a calf on his bed and crying like the Madeleine, and that's a blessing!
"He is not up," she thought, hearing Nanon's morning cough as the good soul went and came, sweeping out the halls, lighting her fire, chaining the dog, and speaking to the beasts in the stable. Eugenie at once went down and ran to Nanon, who was milking the cow. "Nanon, my good Nanon, make a little cream for my cousin's breakfast."
In Nanon, in the first place I was charmed with the style, with a thousand simple and strong things which are included in the web of the work, and which make it what it is; for instance: "as the burden seemed to me enormous, the beast seemed to me beautiful." But I did not pay any attention to any thing, I was carried away, like the commonest reader.
He opened the cupboard where the flour was kept, gave her a cupful, and added a few ounces of butter to the piece he had already cut off. "I shall want wood for the oven," said the implacable Nanon. "Well, take what you want," he answered sadly; "but in that case you must make us a fruit-tart, and you'll cook the whole dinner in the oven. In that way you won't need two fires."
Madame Grandet called to her husband as soon as she heard him stirring in his chamber, and said, "Grandet, will you let Nanon light a fire here for me? The cold is so sharp that I am freezing under the bedclothes. At my age I need some comforts.
"Isn't it true, monsieur, that crows eat the dead?" "You are a fool, Nanon. They eat what they can get, like the rest of the world. Don't we all live on the dead? What are legacies?"
"Is it true," cried Nanon, rushing in alarmed, "that mademoiselle is to be kept on bread and water for the rest of her life?" "What does that signify, Nanon?" said Eugenie tranquilly. "Goodness! do you suppose I'll eat frippe when the daughter of the house is eating dry bread? No, no!" "Don't say a word about all this, Nanon," said Eugenie. "I'll be as mute as a fish; but you'll see!"
Gold won't circulate and stay in your purse. If it were not for that, life would be too fine." He was jovial and benevolent. When Nanon came with her spinning-wheel, "You must be tired," he said; "put away your hemp." "Ah, bah! then I shall get sleepy," she answered. "Poor Nanon! Will you have some ratafia?" "I won't refuse a good offer; madame makes it a deal better than the apothecaries.
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