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Rousselet drew himself up at full height, with the dignity of a man of talent who scorns to reply to either criticism or mistrust. "Monsieur," said Gerfaut, turning to the Baron, "I am really causing you too much trouble. This trifle does not merit the attention you give it. I do not suffer in the least. Some water and a napkin are all that I need.
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"I have only orders to receive from your Eminence," said Rousselet, bowing, and entering the next room. Left alone, the cardinal said to himself, with a pensive air, "I always come back to that. When he was suddenly attacked by the cholera, Father Rodin believed himself poisoned by order of the Holy See.
This courtier-like conduct touched the old lady's heart and softened the severe look upon her face. "Stop your noise, Constance," said she, "lie down beside your mistress. Rousselet, come nearer." The old man obeyed, walking across the floor with reverential bows, and taking a position like a soldier presenting arms.
"If the journals were sealed when you received them, you are the only one who could have opened them." Rousselet straightened himself up to his full height, and, giving to his nut-cracker face the most dignified look possible, he said in a solemn tone: "With due deference to you, Madame, Leonard Rousselet is well known.
"Rousselet, out of the way!" exclaimed the burly lackey at this new insult; the old peasant not moving as quickly as he desired, he seized him by the arm and sent him whirling ten steps away. At this moment, a new person completed the scene, joining in it, if not as actor at least as interested spectator.
"I watched by him during the first three days of his malady, with M. Rousselet, the pupil of Dr. Baleinier," resumed the youngest father; "he had hardly a moment's consciousness, and when the Lord did grant him a lucid interval, he employed it in detestable execrations against the fate which had confined him to his bed."
This courtier-like conduct touched the old lady's heart and softened the severe look upon her face. "Stop your noise, Constance," said she, "lie down beside your mistress. Rousselet, come nearer." The old man obeyed, walking across the floor with reverential bows, and taking a position like a soldier presenting arms.
"It means," said the coachman: "first, that Rousselet has nothing to do with it; I do not need anybody's help to punish an insignificant fellow like you; second, that you are going to receive your quietus in a trice." At these words he pushed his cap down over his ears and rolled up his sleeves, in order to give freer action to his large, broad hands.
"But I have business with you," replied the big domestic, placing himself in front of him and balancing himself first on his toes then on his heels, with a motion like the wooden rocking-horses children play with. "Come here, Rousselet; are you wheezy or foundered?"
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