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Updated: April 30, 2025
Sabot felt ill at ease in there, as though he were in the house of his greatest enemy, but the greed of gain was gnawing at his heart. He drew nearer, holding his cap in his hand, and not paying any attention to the "demoiselles de la Vierge," who remained standing startled, astonished, motionless on their chairs. He faltered: "Good morning, monsieur le cure."
He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also.
Who can forget the passage where Cosette, sent out at night to draw water, stands in admiration before the illuminated booth, and the huckster behind "lui faisait un peu l'effet d'être le Père éternel"? The pathos of the forlorn sabot laid trustingly by the chimney in expectation of the Santa Claus that was not, takes us fairly by the throat; there is nothing in Shakespeare that touches the heart more nearly.
Christopher, if they were going to change all those! And he asked: "What would you require of me? Tell me." The priest, in a firm tone replied: "I must have an extraordinary token of your good intentions." "I do not say I do not say; perhaps we might come to an understanding," faltered Sabot. "You will have to take communion publicly at high mass next Sunday," declared the cure.
The projectile consists of a thin metal tube, into which the charge is inserted, and a wooden sabot which closes it at the rear and flares out until its diameter equals that of the bore of the gun. The forward end of the tube is pointed with some soft material, in which is embedded the firing pin, a conical cap closing the end.
Sabot smiled and asked with an awkward air: "Would it not be possible to put off this communion just a trifle?" But the priest replied, resuming his severe expression: "From the moment that the work is put into your hands, I want to be assured of your conversion." Then he continued more gently: "You will come to confession to-morrow; for I must examine you at least twice."
"She didn't seem at all bad-looking, any way," said Peter. "Every man to his taste!" growled Lancelot. "She's as platt and uninteresting as a wooden sabot." "There's many a pretty foot in a sabot," retorted Peter, with an air of philosophy. "You think that's clever, but it's simply silly. How does that fact affect this particular sabot?" "I've put my foot in it," groaned Peter comically.
Again they plied the peasant woman with questions, but, like a wayward child, she colored up, fidgeted with her sabot, twisted the rope by which she held the cow that had fallen to grazing again, stared at the sportsmen, and scrutinized every article of clothing upon them; she gibbered, grunted, and clucked, but no articulate word did she utter.
Of such gross customs were then the Florentines; but of good faith, and loyal among themselves and in their state; and in their coarse life, and poverty, did more and braver things than are done in our days with more refinement and riches." Pretty Boulogne sabot with purple stockings.
He stopped a few seconds, for breath, and then resumed in a calmer tone: "I can understand that it pains you to see a work of such importance entrusted to a carpenter from a neighboring parish. But I cannot do otherwise, unless but no it is impossible you would not consent, and unless you did, never." Sabot now looked at the row of benches in line as far as the entrance door.
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