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Giraudier, pharmacien, has never seen these ghostly figures, but he describes them with much minuteness; and only the esprits forts of the Croix Rousse deny that the ghosts of Pichon & Sons are not yet laid. They were three. It was in the cheap night-service train from Paris to Calais that I first met them.
'Yes, I know, interrupted La Rousse. 'The Brother didn't want to let her be buried amongst Christians, but Monsieur le Cure said that eternity was for everybody. I was there. But all the same the Philosopher might have come. At that very moment Rosalie reduced them all to silence by murmuring: 'See! there he is, the Philosopher. Jeanbernat was, indeed, just entering the graveyard.
'What's the good of the old man putting himself out about it? We are married, all the same, now, added Rosalie. Then they exchanged a smile across the little coffin while Lisa and La Rousse nudged each other with their elbows. But afterwards they all became very serious again. Fortune picked up a clod of earth to throw at Voriau, who was now prowling about amongst the old tombstones.
Why, as true as there's a God, if my husband had done the dishonest things they accuse him of, I myself do you hear me I myself would have put a gun in his hands, and I would have said: 'Here, Tchecco, blow your head off!" And the way she opens the nostrils in her little turned-up nose, and her round black eyes, like two balls of jet, makes you feel that that little Corsican from Île Rousse would have done as she says.
There have been days when the sun was so warm that I could drive without a rug, and found furs a burden; there have been wonderful moonlit nights; but the most of the time, so far, it has been nasty. On warm days flowers began to sprout and the buds on the fruit-trees to swell. That made Père sigh and talk about the lune rousse.
L'une, fille du Nord, native d'un Crotoy, Etait rousse, mal grasse et de prestance molle; Elle ne m'adressa guere qu'une parole Et c'etait d'un petit cadeau qu'il s'agissait, En revanche, dans son accent d'ail et de poivre, Une troisieme, recemment chanteuse au Havre, Affectait de dandinement des matelots Et m'... enguelait comme un gabier tancant les flots, Mais portrait beau vraiment, sacredie, quel dommage La quatrieme etait sage comme une image, Chatain clair, peu de gorge et priait Dieu parfois: Le diantre soit de ses sacres signes de croix!
And she turned aside to ferret in an ant-hole at a corner of one of the stone flags under the gallery. 'Monsieur Caffin didn't talk so long, now remarked La Rousse. 'When he married Miette, he just gave her two taps on the cheek and told her to be good.
'What does he say? asked Lisa, who was a little deaf. 'Oh! he says what they all say, answered La Rousse. 'He has a glib tongue, like all the priests have. Abbe Mouret went on with his address, his eyes wandering over the heads of the newly wedded couple towards a shadowy corner of the church.
From this point ascend the highest part of the city, called the Croix Rousse, and inquire for a place called Château Montsuy, which stands bordering upon its outskirts, and is best described as the most elevated spot on this line of heights.
At last they hid themselves behind the font, where they pinched each other and twisted themselves about, while trying to choke their bursts of laughter with their clenched fists. 'Well, whispered La Rousse, a finely built girl, with copper-coloured skin and hair, 'there won't be any scrimmage to get out of church when it's all over.
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