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Updated: June 28, 2025
Then, as a customer entered the shop, and asked for a couple of pig's trotters, Lisa wrapped them up, and handed them over with a thoughtful air. "For my own part, I bear La Normande no ill-will," she said to Mademoiselle Saget, when they were alone again. "I used to be very fond of her, and have always been sorry that other people made mischief between us.
She contented herself, moreover, with a dark little closet, leaving the largest rooms to Claire and La Normande. The later, with the authority of the elder born, had taken possession of the room that overlooked the street; it was the best and largest of the suite.
They only spoke of the lad; and when Florent expressed a fear that he might not be able to continue the lessons in the office, La Normande invited him to come to their home in the evening. She spoke also of payment; but at this he blushed, and said that he certainly would not come if any mention were made of money.
A sole Normande costs five francs! and twenty centimes for a roll?" she exclaimed, as she looked through the bill Lousteau showed her. "Well, it makes very little difference to us whether we are robbed at a restaurant or by a cook," said Lousteau. "Henceforth, for the cost of your dinner, you shall live like a prince."
La Normande sprang up, quivering with anger, and let the shawl fall to the floor. "Ah, you've been playing the spy, have you?" she screamed. "Dare to repeat what you've just said!" "You wretched coward!" repeated Claire, in still more insulting tones than before.
Then as the servant at last came up, and sniffed at a brill with that dissatisfied pout which buyers assume in the hope of getting what they want at a lower price, La Normande continued: "Just feel the weight of that, now," and so saying she laid the brill, wrapped in a sheet of thick yellow paper, on the woman's open palm.
But she'll pay more dearly for this than she fancies!" The three women felt that La Normande was not telling them the truth, but this did not prevent them from taking her part with a rush of bad language.
He had already planned out his expenditure for the future; reckoning that with what Madame Verlaque still allowed him to retain of his salary, and the thirty francs a month which a pupil, obtained through La Normande, paid him he would be able to spend eighteen sous on his breakfast and twenty-six sous on his dinner. This, he thought, would be ample.
"I believe that the adjournment is prudent." "Prudentissimo!" said the captain. "Athenais, light my pipe. La Normande, pour me out something to drink." "The day after to-morrow, then, captain?" "Yes; where shall I find you?" "Listen," replied D'Harmental, speaking so as to be heard by no one but him. "Walk, from ten to eleven o'clock in the morning, in the Rue du Temps Perdu.
"I've been trying to find out something about him for the last fortnight, but I can make nothing of it. Monsieur Gavard certainly knows him. I must have met him myself somewhere before, but I can't remember where." She was still ransacking her memory when La Normande swept up to them like a whirlwind. She had just left the pork shop.
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