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"It was worthy," he said, "to be placed as a crown on top of the new Cathedral of St. Marie, and receive the consecration of the Bishop." Lest the composition of it should be forgotten, Maitre Guillot had, with the solemnity of a deacon intoning the Litany, ravished the ear of Jules Painchaud, his future son-in-law, as he taught him the secrets of its confection.
Why, one would say you had studied housekeeping under Madame Painchaud." "And so I have. You do not know what a treasure I am, Pierre," said she, laughing merrily. "I graduated under mes tantes in the kitchen of the Ursulines, and received an accessit as bonne menagere which in secret I prize more than the crown of honor they gave me."
It is just possible, that the way in which he had allowed himself and his thirty men to be taken by us had something to do with this decision. The colonel's name was, I remember, Painchaud, which is translated Hotbread, a funny name, which I never met elsewhere.