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Updated: June 27, 2025
"What on earth is the matter with us?" cried the unhappy burgomaster. "What is this fire that is devouring us? Are we possessed with the devil? Ah, Madame Van Tricasse, Madame Van Tricasse, you will end by making me die before you, and thus violate all the traditions of the family!"
Nor was this surprising, the theatre having been commenced under the burgomaster Ludwig Van Tricasse, in 1175, and only finished in 1837, under the burgomaster Natalis Van Tricasse. It had required seven hundred years to build it, and it had, been successively adapted to the architectural style in vogue in each period.
The Van Tricasse family might well call itself the "Jeannot family." This is why: Every one knows that the knife of this typical personage is as celebrated as its proprietor, and not less incapable of wearing out, thanks to the double operation, incessantly repeated, of replacing the handle when it is worn out, and the blade when it becomes worthless.
The two notables might even now see the orifices of the pipes which were laid on in the laboratory. Then the doctor begged to know to what he was indebted for the honour of this visit. "Only to see you, doctor; to see you," replied Van Tricasse. "It is long since we have had the pleasure. We go abroad but little in our good town of Quiquendone. We count our steps and measure our walks.
But the butchery was not ended; around the bend of the road galloped more Uhlans, halted, wheeled, and galloped back with harsh cries. The cries were echoed from above and below; the franc-tireurs were surrounded. Then Tricasse raised his smeared sabre, and, bending, took the dead woman by the wrist, lifting her limp, trampled body from the dust.
After a moment he resumed: "The Emperor is said to be with the army near Mézières on the south bank of the Meuse. We are going to find him, Mademoiselle de Nesville and I. Tell us what to do." Tricasse stared at him, incapable of speech. "Very well," said Jack, gently, "think it over. Tell me, at least, how we can avoid the German lines. We must start this evening."
Noble dog! a model for his race. Had he been made of pasteboard, with wheels on his paws, he would not have made less noise during his stay. Towards eight o'clock, after Lotchè had brought the antique lamp of polished glass, the burgomaster said to the counsellor, "We have no other urgent matter to consider?" "No, Van Tricasse; none that I know of."
"Just this: 'Monsieur advocate, said the doctor to his adversary, 'you go too far, it seems to me, and you do not take sufficient care to control your words!" The Burgomaster Van Tricasse clasped his hands the counsellor turned pale and let his lantern fall the commissary shook his head. That a phrase so evidently irritating should be pronounced by two of the principal men in the country!
Who should first creep up the winding steps? Truth compels us to say that there was a tussle, and that the Counsellor Niklausse, forgetful of all that he owed to his superior, to the supreme magistrate of the town, pushed Van Tricasse violently back, and dashed up the staircase first. Both ascended, denouncing and raging at each other at every step.
We shall do wisely to decide upon nothing without a more careful examination of the question." "It is certain," replied Niklausse, "that this post of civil commissary is useless in so peaceful a town as Quiquendone." "Our predecessor," said Van Tricasse gravely, "our predecessor never said, never would have dared to say, that anything is certain.
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