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Pipelet feigned to be very much vexed. "Ah!" cried she, "you must have bad luck." "How?" "M. Bradamanti has not come in." "It is insupportable!" "It is vexing, my poor Mrs. Seraphin!" "I have so much to say to him." "It is just like fate." "Just like Alfred. He is so prudish, that he is startled at everything." "And you do not know when Bradamanti will come in?"
Seraphin is in your service, sir?" "For fourteen years, as housekeeper." "Since it is thus, sir, she can be of great assistance, if you will grant a demand which will appear strange, perhaps, even culpable at first; but, when you shall know with what intention " "A culpable demand, madame; I do not think you are any more capable of making than I am of hearing it."
Seraphin; or, rather, I think, no for she would suspect, perhaps, that you wished to force her. You know it suffices often merely to ask for a thing to have it refused." "To whom do you tell this? That's the way I always served cajolers. If they had asked nothing, I do not say " "That always happens.
Seraphin was in your service for many years, and you have not even the appearance of remembering that she was drowned the day before yesterday. And I said aloud: 'Doubtless, sir, the place is advantageous, but if the young woman is homesick? 'That will pass away, answered the notary; 'come, do you decide yes or no?
Just as she was going into the kitchen she saw the light from the half-opened window. The unfortunate children had neglected to extinguish their light. "I am coming up," added the widow, in a terrible voice; "I am coining to you, little spies." Such are the events which took place at the Ravageur's Island, the evening before Mrs. Seraphin was to conduct thither Fleur-de-Marie.
A young girl brought up at home by her mother or by her virtuous, bigoted, amiable or cross-grained old aunt; a young girl, whose steps have never crossed the home threshold without being surrounded by chaperons, whose laborious childhood has been wearied by tasks, albeit they were profitless, to whom in short everything is a mystery, even the Seraphin puppet show, is one of those treasures which are met with, here and there in the world, like woodland flowers surrounded by brambles so thick that mortal eye cannot discern them.
I covered it with an empty flower-box, and I returned to my room without seeing any one. Of all I tell you, sir, I have but a confused idea. Feeble as I was, I can as yet hardly comprehend how I had the nerve to do all this. At nine o'clock, Mrs. Seraphin came to know why I was not yet up.
She had received no news from him for many days. In the hope of meeting him on Ravageurs' Island, she decided to wait there if she did not find him; she got into a cab, and was rapidly driven to the Bridge of Asnieres, which she crossed about fifteen minutes before Mrs. Seraphin and Fleur-de-Marie, coming on foot, had arrived on the shore near the plaster-kiln.
"I! It produced such an effect on me to see him arrested and taken away by the guard that I could not eat my breakfast. I was recompensed, however, for it spared me from eating the daily mess of Mother Seraphin." "Seventeen thousand francs it is a sum!" "A famous sum!" "And to think that for seventeen months, since he has been cashier, he never has been wanting a centime in his cash account!"
"May the soul of Mother Seraphin rest in peace! for, since she was drowned, we are no longer condemned to eat her ever lasting hash!" "And for a week past, the governor, instead of giving us a breakfast " "Allows us each forty sous a day." "That is the reason I say: may her soul rest in peace." "Exactly; for in her time, the old boy would never have given us the forty sous." "It is enormous!"
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