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Updated: May 10, 2025
Madame Rousseau could not get over the despicable behaviour of Rouquin's servant. She kept on berating the creature and advising Rouquin to dismiss her, until at last Mrs. Bingle announced that the poor thing undoubtedly had acted for the best and out of the goodness of her heart. She also said that she would like to see the woman.
Do you know of a nice, but thoroughly typical French restaurant where we could er get a bit of the atmosphere, don't you know? We are figuring on taking a trip to Paris soon and we'd like to well, you know what I mean? Quiet, respectable place, you know. Nothing rowdyish." Rouquin's eyes sparkled. His joy was great. "Ah, I know of such a place.
" to call on you this week. She is an excellent woman, refined and a lady of very good family in France. She is a friend of Rouquin's, in the bank. He knew the family in Paris. I took the liberty of telling him that you wanted to engage a French LADY to act as companion to your eldest child.
"Oh, yes," said Rousseau, after an instant's hesitation. "I beg Madame's pardon. Does the smoking annoy?" "Not at all," said Mrs. Bingle. "I am used to it. Mr. Bingle smokes a pipe." "Well, where is the baby?" said Mr. Bingle, declining the cigarette which Rousseau proffered in the absence of hospitality on Monsieur Rouquin's part. "Oh," said Madame Rousseau, "it sleeps.
"God bless my soul!" In the meantime, Madame Rousseau was confronting a motherly looking person in Monsieur Rouquin's bath-room, down the little hall. The motherly looking person was holding a fat, yellow-headed baby on her lap and to the mouth of the fat, yellow-headed baby was attached the business end of a half-emptied milk-bottle.
"Has she been exposed?" Mr. Bingle appeared in the doorway. "Come in, please," he said, covering his bare head with a newspaper. "Got some bad news for you." "What the devil do you mean, Bingle, by running around among the riff- raff of all New York, picking up germs and bringing 'em out here to a house full of children? See what you've done, gallivanting around with Rouquin's cheap "
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