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"Ah!" said she, "I let myself be bitten by a big flea, who had already been baptised." At this speech, the sister of the bass note could not restrain a second sign. "Ah!" said Sister Ovide, "you are bound to give us the third. If you spoke that language in the choir, the abbess would diet you like Sister Petronille; so put a sordine in your trumpet."
"Now," went on Sister Ovide, "if it be a male flea, you take your scissors, or your lover's dagger, if by chance he has given you one as a souvenir, previous to your entry into the convent. In short, furnished with a cutting instrument, you carefully slit open the flanks of the flea.
But guess who helped grandpère do that." "Why, do I know him? Castanado." The girl shook her head. "Who? Beloiseau?" "Ah, you! You can guess better." "Ovide Lan' no, Ovide was still a slave." "Yet more free than most free negroes. 'Twas he. He was janitor to offices in the hotel, and always making acquaintance with the slaves of the slave-mart.
Among them was Charles Ovide Perrault, member of the Assembly for Vaudreuil, a young barrister of considerable promise. He seems to have been Papineau's closest follower and confidant During the last sessions of the Lower Canada legislature Perrault contributed many letters to La Minerve.
Ovide lifted a hand: "Will you leave that to my wife, so unlearned yet so wise and good? For the young lady's own sake my wife, without explaining, will see that you are not misjudged." "Good! Right! Any explanation would simply belie itself. Yes, let her do it! But, Landry " "Yes?" "For heaven's sake don't let her make me out a goody-goody.
Ovide camped the second night at a bend of the river, a mile below the foot of the lake. Between him and Dan Scott there was a hill covered with a dense thicket of spruce. By what magic did Carcajou know that Pichou, his old enemy, was so near him in that vast wilderness of white death?
If it be a male " "How can one tell that a flea is a virgin? asked the curious novice. "First of all," replied Sister Ovide, "she is sad and melancholy, does not laugh like the others, does not bite so sharp, has her mouth less wide open, blushes when touched you know where." "In that case," replied the novice, "I have been bitten by a male."
Your magazine being one of a set, you couldn't let her read it anywhere but here." "I have to keep my own rules." "Let me see it. . . . Oh, now, why not? What was the use of either of us explaining if if ?" But Ovide smilingly restored the thing to its stack. "Now," he said, "'tis Mr. Chester's logic that fails." Yet as he turned to a customer he let Chester take it down.
Ovide, who was standing complacently behind Fielding's chair, not understanding the allusion, and thinking that he was called upon to say something, said brightly, "Oh, yes, sir, dat turkey is de finest turkey I never see."
At this the sisters burst out laughing so heartily that one of them sounded a bass note and voided a little water and Sister Ovide pointing to it on the floor, said "You see there's never wind without rain." The novice laughed herself, thinking that these chuckles were caused by the sister's exclamation.
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