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When Henrietta got home she said not a word to anyone about what had taken place, though the condition of the horse and his harness sufficed to show that an accident had happened. But she could scarce wait for the morrow to come, bringing along with it Todor Rubán, from whom she meant to find out everything relating to Juon Tare.
And with even greater cruelty than our little lady! From his earliest childhood nothing but struggling! And, in fact, I will confess that, inspired by Ruban, I composed in allusion to this fact a stanza for the portrait of Paramon Semyonitch. Wait a bit ... how was it? Yes! 'E'en from the cradle fate's remorseless blows Baburin drove towards the abyss of woes!
I believe the correct thing is not to wear mourning, but almost all the ladies of the Faubourg St. Germain went about in black garments for some time. One of my friends put it rather graphically: "Si on a un ruban rose dans les cheveux on a tout de suite l'air d'etre la maitresse de Rochefort." All Europe was engrossed with the question of the Pope's successor.
"And the bow, Monsieur the bit of ribbon?" "Va pour le ruban!" was the propitious answer. And so we settled it. "Well done, Lucy Snowe!" cried I to myself; "you have come in for a pretty lecture brought on yourself a 'rude savant, and all through your wicked fondness for worldly vanities! Who would have thought it? You deemed yourself a melancholy sober-sides enough!
"Would your ladyship believe," so Todor Rubán began his story of Juon the strong, "sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread and yet, for all that, are happy?
"'Keep them little, then, said he. 'Permit them not to become full-blown. "'And the bow, monsieur the bit of ribbon? "'Va pour le ruban! was the propitious answer. "And so we settled it." That is good; and when Lucy presents the watchguard it is better still. "He looked at the box: I saw its clear and warm tint, and bright azure circlet, pleased his eyes. I told him to open it.
I cannot say I was surprised to meet him, since we had made a rendezvous; but I acknowledge that I had become so preoccupied with my own thoughts that I had forgotten all about the Chateau de Lusance and its inhabitants, and that the voice of the gentleman calling out to me as I started to follow the country road winding away before me "un bon ruban de queue," as they say had given me quite a start.
If this sort of suburb increases, the place will lose its present aspect of graceful originality. In 1829, however, both sides of the road were clear, and the master of the post route, a tall, stout man about sixty years of age, sitting one fine autumn morning at the highest part of the bridge, could take in at a glance the whole of what is called in his business a "ruban de queue."
Fancy! a hundred florins a month for teaching a lingo only spoken by bumpkins. Todor Rubán that was the priest's name was at once conducted to her ladyship. He was an elderly man, of an open, cheerful countenance; his fine, long white hair fell in thick locks on his simple black cassock, which showed considerable signs of wear.
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