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Updated: June 4, 2025
The door opened and Mme. Padoie appeared. She went over to her brother without any eagerness, held her cheek for him to kiss, and asked: "Have you been here long?" "No, hardly half an hour." "Oh, I thought the train would be late. Will you come into the parlor?" They went into the adjoining room, leaving Padoie to his accounts and his taxpayers.
When he said: "Nom d'un chien, what a spree!" he expressed the highest degree of admiration of which his mind was capable. Having finally got rid of his peasants, Padoie inquired: "How are you?" "Pretty well, as you see. And how are you?" "Quite well, thank you. It is very kind of you to have thought of coming to see us."
Varajou gave a shout of joy, and rising from his seat, he rushed at his brother-in-law, put his arms round him and waltzed him round the room, shouting: "Here is Padoie! Here is Padoie! Here is Padoie!" Then letting go of the tax collector he exclaimed as he looked him in the face: "Oh, oh, oh, you scamp, you scamp! You are out for a good time, too. Oh, you scamp! And my sister!
Varajou gave a shout of joy, and rising from his seat, he rushed at his brother-in-law, put his arms round him and waltzed him round the room, shouting: "Here is Padoie! Here is Padoie! Here is Padoie!" Then letting go of the tax collector he exclaimed as he looked him in the face: "Oh, oh, oh, you scamp, you scamp! You are out for a good time, too. Oh, you scamp! And my sister!
His daughter had married Padoie, a former treasury clerk, who had just been appointed tax collector at Vannes. Varajou, on leaving the train, had some one direct him to the house of his brother-in-law, whom he found in his office arguing with the Breton peasants of the neighborhood. Padoie rose from his seat, held out his hand across the table littered with papers, murmured, "Take a chair.
But at last, being ashamed of his bashfulness, and with an awkward laugh, he said: "Do not people have any amusement in this country? I will pay for a bottle of wine." He had not finished his sentence when the door opened, and in walked Padoie dressed in a black suit.
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