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Updated: June 13, 2025
"I think that the clever woman of Sancerre is simply the greatest chatterbox," replied the journalist. "A woman who wants to see you deputy!" cried Gatien. "An angel!" "Forgive me, I forgot you were in love with her," said Lousteau. "Forgive the cynicism of an old scamp. Ask Bianchon; I have no illusions left. I see things as they are.
"That is all," said Lousteau, "for the foreman has torn off the rest in wrapping up my proofs. But it is enough to show that the author was full of promise." "I cannot make head or tail of it," said Gatien Boirouge, who was the first to break the silence of the party from Sancerre. "Nor I," replied Monsieur Gravier. "And yet it is a novel of the time of the Empire," said Lousteau.
Far from finding in his talk the romance which the Public Prosecutor, the Sous-prefet, the Presiding Judge, and his deputy, Lebas, had discovered there to say nothing of Monsieur de la Baudraye and Dinah the ladies now gathered round the tea-table, took the matter as a practical joke, and accused the Muse of Sancerre of having a finger in it.
On the tenth day Lousteau received a letter with the Sancerre post-mark. "Good! very good!" said Lousteau. "'Beloved friend, idol of my heart and soul twenty pages of it! all at one sitting, and dated midnight! She writes when she finds herself alone. Poor woman! Ah, ha! And a postscript
Travelers from Paris to Sancerre by the southern road were no longer ferried across the river from Cosne to Saint-Thibault; and this of itself is enough to show that the great cross-shuffle of 1830 was a thing of the past, for the House of Orleans has always had a care for substantial improvements, though somewhat after the fashion of a husband who makes his wife presents out of her marriage portion.
The words Superior Woman had superseded the absurd nickname of The Sappho of Saint-Satur. This lady, who for nine years had led the opposition, was so delighted at the good reception accorded to her son, that she became loud in her praises of the Muse of Sancerre.
The Countess, the children, and her mother, in short, the whole household, including a tutor, had gone away to Sancerre, where Dinah intended to spend the summer. She was everything that was nice to the Count, people said.
In addition, the Order of the Legion of Honor will be conferred on you." "Well, that is something," said the wine-grower, tempted by the money rather than by the red ribbon. "But then," said des Lupeaulx, "you must show your gratitude to His Excellency by restoring to Monseigneur the Duc de Navarreins all your claims on him." La Baudraye returned to Sancerre as Collector of Taxes.
"You may judge of the surprise I was in at what Sancerre told me; I asked him how he came by the knowledge of it, and he told me that the minute I went away from him, Etouteville, who is his intimate friend, but who nevertheless knew nothing of his love for Madam de Tournon, came to see him; that as soon as he was sat down, he fell a-weeping, and asked his pardon for having concealed from him what he was going to tell him, that he begged him to have compassion of him, that he was come to open his heart to him, and that he was the person in the world the most afflicted for the death of Madam de Tournon.
The weather, fortunately, was dry, but the sun beat down fiercely, and at times we were half-choked by the dust that rose from beneath our feet. As Felix had foretold, we struck westward, travelling at a steady pace, and seeing no sign of the king's troops till shortly before reaching the Loire, near Sancerre.
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