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"I'm not," said Bonnebault. "If you are all safe friends who'll keep your tongues between your teeth, I'll aim at the Shopman Hey! how I'd like to put a plum through his bottle; wouldn't it avenge me on those cursed officers?" "Tut! tut!" cried Jean-Louis Tonsard, who was supposed to be, more or less, Gaubertin's son, and who had just entered the tavern.
Rigou knew nothing of the love affair between her and Jean-Louis Tonsard, which proves that he had let himself be fooled by the girl, the only one of his many servants whose ambition had taught her to flatter the lynx as the only way to blind him. This uncrowned Louis XV. did not keep himself wholly to his pretty Annette.
"He's right," said Courtecuisse, "I'm the best shot; Vaudoyer, I'll go with you; Bonnebault may watch in my place; he can give a cry; that's easier heard and less suspicious." All three returned to the tavern and the wedding festivities went on; but about eleven o'clock Vaudoyer, Courtecuisse, Tonsard, and Bonnebault went out, carrying their guns, though none of the women took any notice of them.
"It'll be hard to have to come to that," said Courtecuisse, shaking his head. "I'd rather earn the money by shooting one of those Arminacs." "Well, I call it better for a girl to save a father than to wrap up her virtue and let it mildew," retorted the innkeeper. Tonsard felt a sharp tap on his shoulder, delivered by Pere Niseron. "That is not a right thing to say!" cried the old man.
Hey! what? why, soldiers are soldiers, and you are nothing but civilian beggars; they've a right, they think, to sabre peasants, the devil take you!" "Well, well," said Tonsard, "what is there in all that to frighten you like kids? What can they get out of my mother and daughters? Put 'em in prison? well, then they must feed them; and the Shopman can't imprison the whole country.
If she's a good girl you can easily manage matters with that old jail bird " "We sent her to Auxerre two years ago to Madame Mariotte the elder, to keep her out of harm's way; I'd rather die than " "What a fool you are!" said Tonsard, "look at my girls, are they any the worse? He who dares to say they are not as virtuous as marble images will have to do with my gun."
Everybody inside the inn guessed at once that a man was pursuing a woman; but why? The uncertainty did not last long. "It is mother!" said Tonsard, jumping up; "I know her shriek." Then suddenly, rushing up the broken steps of the Grand-I-Vert by a last effort that can be made only by the sinews of smugglers, old Mother Tonsard fell flat on the floor in the middle of the room.
The late monk was occasionally visited by Catherine Tonsard who was very devoted to her brother Nicolas; on one such occasion Rigou advised her to appeal to the general and the countess. "They may be glad to do you this service to cajole you; in that case, it is just so much gained from the enemy," he said. "If the Shopman refuses, then we shall see what we shall see."
"Shall you glean whether or no, Godain?" said Tonsard to the journeyman wheelwright, who was saying a few words to Catherine. "I? I've no property; I'm a pauper," he replied; "I shall ask for a certificate." "What did they give my father for his otter, bibi?" said Madame Tonsard to Mouche.
And they say he is going to issue an order that no one shall enter the fields till the carts are all loaded." "Why, the fellow's a pestilence!" cried Tonsard, beside himself with rage. "I heard that only yesterday," said Madame Tonsard. "I offered Groison a glass of brandy to get something out of him."
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