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Henri's head drooped, and quick tears filled his eyes. He said nothing further, but turned to assist Babette in guiding the little Fabien's hesitating steps as he hobbled from the room. The emotional Madame Patoux choked back a rising sob. "God bless you Monseigneur!" she murmured "Henri will not forget those words the lad has a hasty temper, but a good heart yes, believe me a good heart "
And turning to Madame Patoux he added smilingly "You, my daughter, with children of your own to care for, will no longer blame me for my interest in this child, who is without protection in a somewhat rough world. We of the Church dare not 'offend one of these little ones'."
He held out a hand invitingly towards Babette, but she merely made a grimace at him and retired backwards. Patoux smiled benevolently. "She does not like strangers," he explained. "Good very good! That is right! Little girls should always run away from strangers, especially strangers of my sex," observed Cazeau with a sniggering laugh "And do these dear children go to school?"
"And thou wouldst be of the majority!" said Patoux equably "For our house has been a very bee-hive of buzz and trouble ever since a bit of good was done in it and Martine Doucet, the mother of the cured child, has led the life of the damned, thanks to the kindness of her neighbours and friends!
Left to entertain the Archbishop's secretary, Jean Patoux was for a minute or two somewhat embarrassed. Henri and Babette stared at the stranger with undisguised curiosity, and were apparently not favourably impressed by his appearance. "He has white eyelashes!" whispered Henri. "And yellow teeth," responded Babette.
Whereupon the secretary rose, evidently glad to be set at liberty, and took his leave of the Patoux family. On the threshold, however, he paused, looking back somewhat frowningly at Jean Patoux himself. "I should not, if I were you, trouble Monseigneur concerning the case you told me of that of of Marguerite Valmond," he observed "He has a horror of evil women."
A gentle lad! my wife was greatly taken with him; and he was present in my house too, when the miracle of healing was performed." "And for that, is there any need to cross thyself like a mumbling old woman afraid of the devil?" enquired his cousin. Patoux smiled a slow smile. "Gently, Pierre gently!" he said. "Thou art of Paris, I of the provinces.
Our own Archbishop!" Madame Patoux jumped up, and seizing her children, held one in each hand as she curtsied up and down. Benedicite!" said the new-comer, lightly signing the cross in air with a sociable smile "Do not disturb yourselves, my children! You have with you in this house the eminent Cardinal Bonpre?"
"Ah!" and Patoux, having stuffed his pipe sufficiently, lit it, and proceeded to smoke peaceably "There must be much to do. Many poor and sick who need money, and clothes, and help in every way, and to try and do good, and give comfort to all the unhappy souls in Rouen is a hard task, even for an Archbishop." Cazeau linked his thin hands together with an action of pious fervour and assented.
One person there was, who had listened to his oration in wonder and open-mouthed admiration, this was Jean Patoux. He had taken the opportunity offered him in a "cheap excursion" from Rouen to Paris, to visit a cousin of his who was a small florist owning a shop in the Rue St.
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