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"Mademoiselle Elizabeth Rousset?" he said. Boule de Suif started and turned round. "That is my name." "Mademoiselle, the Prussian officer wants to speak to you at once." "To me?" "Yes, if you really are Mademoiselle Elizabeth Rousset." She hesitated, thought for a moment, and then declared roundly: "That may be, but I'm not going."
They were about to sit down to dinner when Monsieur Follenvie appeared, and in his grating voice announced: "The Prussian officer sends to ask Mademoiselle Elisabeth Rousset if she has changed her mind yet." Boule de Suif stood still, pale as death.
He was a former horse dealer, a stout, asthmatic man, always wheezing, coughing and clearing his throat. His father had transmitted him the name of Follenvie. He inquired: "Mademoiselle Elizabeth Rousset?" Boule de Suif started; she turned around: "That is my name!" "Mademoiselle, the Prussian Officer wants to speak to you immediately." "To me?" "Yes, if you are Mlle. Elizabeth Rousset?"
"Mademoiselle, the Prussian officer wishes to speak to you immediately." "To me?" "Yes; if you are Mademoiselle Elisabeth Rousset." She hesitated, reflected a moment, and then declared roundly: "That may be; but I'm not going." They moved restlessly around her; every one wondered and speculated as to the cause of this order.
Elizabeth Rousset whether she has changed her mind?" Boule de Suif stood still, pale as death. Then turning suddenly crimson, she felt so suffocated by anger that she could not speak. Finally she gasped out: "You will please tell that scoundrel, that rascal, that carrion of a Prussian, that I shall never consent; you understand, never, never, never!" The fat inn-keeper went away.
Just as they were sitting down to the evening meal Monsieur appeared and said in his husky voice: "The Prussian officer wishes to know if Mademoiselle Elizabeth Rousset has not changed her mind yet?" Boule de Suif remained standing and turned very pale, then suddenly her face flamed and she fell into such a paroxysm of rage that she could not speak.
"Cesarean section is reported to have been performed by Nicola de Falcon in the year 1491. Nufer, in 1500, and Rousset, in 1581, performed it a great many times, always successfully; so that, Scipio Murunia affirms, it was as common in France during that epoch as blood-letting was in Italy, where at that time patients were bled for almost every disease.
In the evening just as the soup was being brought to the table Monsieur Follenvie made his appearance again with the same message as before: "The Prussian officer sends to ask Mademoiselle Elizabeth Rousset if she had not changed her mind." "No, Monsieur," Boule de Suif replied curtly. At supper the coalition weakened.
Europe and the Directory . Among the histories, the most important are those of Blanc, Taine, Sybel, Sorel, and Mortimer-Ternaux. Special studies: C. Rousset, Les Volontaires de 1791-1794. Chassin: Pacifications de l'Ouest and Dictature de Hoche. Mallet du Pan: Correspondance avec la cour de Vienne. Also the Correspondence of Sandoz.
I was moved to translate them partly by your saying to me one day, 'Can't you give us any more of Tocqueville? The Journal goes on: To Paris for Christmas. Saw M. Guizot; dined at the Embassy. Dined with Mme. Faucher on Christmas Day; with M. Guizot on the 27th; Camille Rousset and Taine there.
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