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Then he related at length his troubles with Polyte, his leaving his service, his bad reputation, things which had been told him, accumulating insignificant and minute proofs, and then, the brigadier, who had been listening very attentively while he emptied his glass and filled it again with an indifferent air, turned to his gendarme and said: "We must go and look in the cottage of Severin's wife."
Those furniture-movers are beginning their racket in the billiard-room again; and their van has been left before the front door! The 'Hirondelle' might run into it when it draws up. Call Polyte and tell him to put it up. Only think, Monsieur Homais, that since morning they have had about fifteen games, and drunk eight jars of cider!
This Polyte was a laborer, who had been employed on the farm for a few days, and who had been dismissed by Lecacheur for an insolent answer. He was an old soldier, and was supposed to have retained his habits of marauding and debauchery, from his campaigns in Africa.
"It must be that fellow, Polyte." His wife got up suddenly and said in a furious voice: "He did it! he did it! You need not look for any one else. He did it! You have said it, Cacheux!"
Suppose I saw Polyte steal a couple of pairs of boots from a trotter-case seller's stall " Polyte interrupted the narrator, protesting so strongly that he would not commit such an act, that Tantaine perceived at once that some such trifling act of larceny weighed heavily on his conscience. "You needn't kick up such a row," returned Toto. "I am only just putting it as a thing that might happen.
It could be seen that he carried the thing off well. The repast was given in Polyte Cacheprune's inn.
And then, having been to the mayor's office and to church, she now lived in the house which her man had bought, while he continued to tend his flocks, day and night, on the plains. And the brigadier added: "Polyte has been sleeping there for three weeks, for the thief has no place of his own to go to!" The gendarme made a little joke: "He takes the shepherd's blankets."
"It must be that fellow, Polyte." His wife got up suddenly and said in a furious voice: "He did it! he did it! You need not look for any one else. He did it! You have said it, Cacheux!"
And is it also true that it was found under my bed?" "What do you mean, the rabbit?" "The rabbit and then Polyte." "Yes, my poor Severin, quite true, but who told you?" "Pretty well everybody. I understand! And I suppose you know all about marriages, as you marry people?" "What about marriage?" "With regard to one's rights." "What rights?" "The husband's rights and then the wife's rights."
"'Polyte," I demanded of our pilot, "how long before your partner will be at the lighthouse, below, there?" "'Ow long?" "Yes." "Oh, maybe thees day sometam." "And how long before he'll start back with the mail?" "'Ow long?" "Yes." "Oh, maybe thees same day sometam." "And how long will it take him to get back to some post-office with those letters?" "'Ow long?" "Yes."
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