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On these two conditions, inseparable one from the other, you remain bailiff; otherwise, I shall be forced, with grief and regret, to recommend some one else to Madame de la Sainte-Colombe." "I beg you, sir," said Dupont, with emotion, "Be generous without any conditions! I and my wife have only this place to give us bread, and we are too old to find another.
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."
The sound of the quays and bridges hardly reaches us, the city might be veiled; at this height, its activity is like a dream and I seem to be living over again those quiet moments which we used to spend side by side at Sainte-Colombe. Are you happy?" Smiling and with her eyes still fixed on the sky, she says: "Yes." "Perfectly?" "Yes." "You are not afraid of the future?"
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.
At these words the bailiff began to laugh with a sly look. "What is there to laugh at, Dupont?" asked his wife, a very good creature, but not famous for intelligence or penetration. "I laugh," answered Dupont, "to think of the face and figure of that enormous woman: with such a look, who the devil would call themselves Madame de la Sainte-Colombe Mrs. Holy Dove?
At these words the bailiff began to laugh with a sly look. "What is there to laugh at, Dupont?" asked his wife, a very good creature, but not famous for intelligence or penetration. "I laugh," answered Dupont, "to think of the face and figure of that enormous woman: with such a look, who the devil would call themselves Madame de la Sainte-Colombe Mrs. Holy Dove?
"Madame de la Sainte-Colombe!" cried the bailiff, laughing heartily. "Oh, my poor, poor wife!" "Oh, it is all very well; but because you have been three years at Paris, don't think yourself a conjurer!" "Catherine, let's drop it: you will make me say some folly, and there are certain things which dear, good creatures like you need never know."
"Now, my dear sir, you flatter me in your turn; but I ought to tell you, that I'm obliged to annex a small condition to my support." "Oh, by all means! Only name it, sir name it!" "The person who is about to inhabit this mansion, is an old lady in every way worthy of veneration; Madame de la Sainte-Colombe is the name of this respectable "
"You must, on the contrary, much praise, without ceasing, the curate of Roiville, the other parish, so as to decide this good lady to trust herself to his care." "And why, sir, to him rather than to the other?" "Why? because, if you and Madame Dupont succeed in persuading Madame de la Sainte-Colombe to make the choice I wish, you will be certain to keep your place as bailiff.
Leaving Djalma and Faringhea in the coach, on their way, a few words are indispensable before continuing this scene. Sainte-Colombe, having accepted this proposition, too advantageous to be refused, had set out that morning with her servants, to whom she wished, she said, in return for their good services, to give a day's pleasure in the country.
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