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"Could you guess at their number?" "About four thousand thieves, three thousand or more beggars, and four or five hundred assassins." "Well, there are at least eight thousand good-for-nothings; of what religion are they?" Poulain laughed. "Of all, monseigneur; or, rather, of none; gold is their god, and blood their prophet." "Yes; but their politics? Are they Valois, Leaguers, Navarrais, or what?"
When the party came round to the rooms occupied by Senator Burton and his family, Madame Poulain came forward, and touched the Police Agent on the arm: "The lady who imagines that we have made away with her husband is here," she whispered. "You had better knock at the door, and then walk straight in.
Poulain knew the portress and her way of thinking perfectly well; he thought her capable of tormenting Pons, but he saw that she had neither motive enough nor wit enough for murder; and besides every time the doctor came and she gave her husband a draught, she took a spoonful herself.
And then there came a chorus of bonsoirs from host, from hostess, and from the lad who now stood waiting with the Englishman's large portmanteau hitched up on his shoulder. Dampier bent and kissed his wife very tenderly: then he followed Monsieur Poulain and the latter's nephew up the stairs, while Madame Poulain stayed behind and helped Mrs.
"I guarantee you thirty thousand francs," said Fraisier, speaking like a man sure of the fact. "After all, you know how fond I am of dear Dr. Poulain," she began again in her most coaxing tones; "he told me to come to you, worthy man, and he did not send me here to be told that I shall be guillotined for poisoning some one."
Her husband broke in conciliatingly: "No doubt it is as Monsieur le Senateur says," he observed; "the demoiselle is what we said she was only this morning " and then he uttered the word which in French means so much and so little the word "toquee." There came another interruption. "Here come Mademoiselle Daisy and Monsieur Gerald!" exclaimed Madame Poulain in a relieved tone.
Poulain tells him everything that goes on in the house, and it is a great bother to keep that scarecrow quiet." "I say! I was going to you," said she. Fraisier grumbled because Elie Magus had refused to see him.
I have already saved you sixty thousand francs which I expected to give to that vile creature Mme. Cibot. But I still require the tobacconist's license for the woman Sauvage, and an appointment to the vacant place of head-physician at the Quinze-Vingts for my friend Poulain." "Agreed it is all arranged." "Very well. There is no more to be said.
Till then I shall stay in my own room. You were like my own child to me; did anybody ever see a child revolt against its mother?... No, no, M. Schmucke, I do not want to hear more. I will bring you your dinner and wait upon you, but you must take a nurse. Ask M. Poulain about it." And she went out, slamming the door after her so violently that the precious, fragile objects in the room trembled.
"I have given myself a wrench that I shall feel all my days," added she, making as though she were in great pain. When I saw him lying there on the floor, I just took him up in my arms as if he had been a child, and carried him back to bed, I did. And I strained myself, I can feel it now. Ah! how it hurts! I am going downstairs. Look after our patient. I will send Cibot for Dr. Poulain.
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