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Updated: June 23, 2025
I, myself, who am no fool, I can't say what I'll do when I fall ill. I believe I shall try to be reconciled with the Church." "Suffer me to hope it," said the Abbe Taupin, for whose benefit Rigou had raised his voice on the last words. "Alas! the wrong I did in marrying prevents it," replied Rigou. "I cannot kill off Madame Rigou." "Meantime, let us think of Les Aigues," said Madame Soudry.
"Yes, I remember him...James Stirling," she said. "The circus rider, James Stirling, on whose account that tall girl Caro, who was also a circus rider, gave that old stager Blanche Taupin a cut right and left across the face with her riding-whip, because she had tried to get him from her...But what can have happened to him, to have brought him down to such a position?"
This said Taupin, spurned by every one, took unto himself a wife, and by chance he was blessed with one as mild as the peel of an onion, who, noticing the peculiar humour of her husband, took more pains to bring joy to his house than would another to bestow horns upon him.
The Gourdons were rich; the doctor had married the only daughter of old Monsieur Gendrin-Vatebled, keeper of the forests and streams, whom the family were now expecting to die, while the poet had married the niece and sole heiress of the Abbe Taupin, the curate of Soulanges, a stout priest who lived in his cure like a rat in his cheese.
"Pere Rigou's visits are pretty short," said Gourdon the poet to Madame Soudry. "They are pleasant, if they are short," she answered. "Like his own life," said the doctor; "his abuse of pleasures will cut that short." "So much the better," remarked Soudry, "my son will step into the property." "Did he bring you any news about Les Aigues?" asked the Abbe Taupin.
And, indeed, there's nothing more for us to do here. But for that d d Corporal Taupin the drunken Frenchman showed himself before I'd surrounded the maquis we should have had them all like fish in a net." "Are there only seven of you here?" inquired Colomba.
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