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Updated: May 21, 2025
The two old women squabbled as to which of them should be sold by her children. The noise of the quarrel woke up the household. Tonsard and Bonnebault took sides for their respective mothers. "Pull straws," suggested Tonsard's wife. The short straw gave it in favor of the tavern.
"I knew he would find some pretty girl at Socquard's, there he is, putting her into his carriage." "You are quite wrong, gentlemen," said Madame Soudry; "Monsieur Rigou is thinking of nothing but the great affair; and if I'm not mistaken, that girl is only Tonsard's daughter." "He is like the chemist who lays in a stock of vipers," said old Guerbet.
Bonnebault, in payment of a few francs lost at cards, might very likely tell the secrets he heard at Tonsard's to Viollet; or he might let them out over his punch without realizing the importance of such gossip.
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