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A pretty saint, and a pretty dove, truly! She is round as a hogshead, with the voice of a town-crier; has gray moustachios like an old grenadier, and without her knowing it, I heard her say to her servant: 'Stir your stumps, my hearty! and yet she calls herself Sainte-Colombe!" "How hard on her you are, Dupont; a body don't choose one's name. And, if she has a beard, it is not the lady's fault."
For this wretch lives like a vagabond is constantly in taverns almost always intoxicated but, I must own, his power of abuse is inexhaustible, and he is well versed in the most abstruse theological controversies, so that he is sometimes very useful to us." "Well! though Madame de la Sainte-Colombe is hard upon sixty, it appears that Dumoulin has matrimonial views on her large fortune.
"Come over to the other side," I said to Rose. "Quick!... Suppose they brought it back!" Good-natured as always and pleased at my amusement, she laughed because I laughed; and, while we ran to the other exit, the masterpiece of Sainte-Colombe millinery rolled and rolled and hopped from stair to stair. The bustle of the restaurant and the noise of the street outside affected me tremendously.
She even said that she would make some embellishments in it; and, when I told her we had no church in this little place, she appeared quite vexed not to have a curate in the village." "Oh, to be sure! that's the first thought of your upstarts to play the great lady of the parish, like your titled people." "Madame de la Sainte-Colombe need not play the great lady, because she is one."
A pretty saint, and a pretty dove, truly! She is round as a hogshead, with the voice of a town-crier; has gray moustachios like an old grenadier, and without her knowing it, I heard her say to her servant: 'Stir your stumps, my hearty! and yet she calls herself Sainte-Colombe!" "How hard on her you are, Dupont; a body don't choose one's name. And, if she has a beard, it is not the lady's fault."
Mary's Convent, to the great advantage of the soul's peace and health of some of our patients, being extremely innocent. These alternations never exceed the difference between 'pretty well, and 'not quite so well. Yet small as are the variations, they act most efficaciously on certain minds. It was thus with Madame de la Sainte-Colombe.
Having once determined on his execrable design, Rodin had sent Jacques Dumoulin to Sainte-Colombe, without telling him the real object of his mission, to ask this experienced woman to procure a fine young girl, tall, and with red hair. The rest is known, or may be guessed. The unfortunate girl, who acted as Adrienne's double, believed she was only aiding in a jest.
Certainly, it is no longer the Rose of Sainte-Colombe who is here beside me. How much of her remains?
"Ah! but if, on the other hand, persons who have long lived in the neighborhood persons worthy of confidence, whom she will see every day tell Madame de la Sainte-Colombe a great deal of good of my friend, and a great deal of harm of the other curate, she will prefer the former, and you will continue bailiff." "But, sir that would be calumny!" cried Dupont.
"I cannot tell what you are driving at, only try to be less slanderous for, after all, should Madame de la Sainte-Colombe buy the estate, will you be sorry to remain as her bailiff, eh?"
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