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At this remark the marquise blushed most painfully. "Oh, oh!" exclaimed all the guests, "that can very well be said of one who has the finest diamonds in Paris." "Well?" said Fouquet to Pelisson, in a low tone. "Well, at last I have understood you," returned the latter; "and you have done exceedingly well." "Supper is ready, monseigneur," said Vatel, with majestic air and tone.
Vatel did not even thank his master, he merely shrugged his shoulders a little, murmuring this superb sentiment: "To be thanked for having done one's duty is humiliating." "He is right," said Gourville, as he drew Fouquet's attention, by a gesture, to another point.
Rupert tried him and never regretted the venture. In fact, Uncle Matt's accomplishments were varied for practical reasons. He had been in his time first house servant, then coachman; he had married at twenty a woman of forty, who had been a sort of female mulatto Vatel.
"Messieurs," said he, "in truth we are abusing a man whom no one knows: it is neither charitable nor reasonable; and here is monsieur le surintendant, who, I am sure, agrees with me." "Entirely," replied Fouquet. "Let the fat fowls of M. Colbert alone; our business to-day is with the faisans truffes of M. Vatel."
"But I tell you," said Marie, continuing her topic, "they won't be cajoled; I don't know what's the matter with them; that bully at the pavilion, he's married, but Vatel, Gaillard, and Steingel are not; they've not a woman belonging to them; indeed, there's not a woman in the place who would marry them." "Well, we shall see how things go at the harvest and the vintage," said Tonsard.
A thickening of the substance of the heart is occasionally suspected, and, on the other hand, an increased capacity of the cavities of the heart; the parietes being considerably thinner, and the frame of the animal emaciated. The pulse of the greater part of our domestic animals has been calculated by Mr. Vatel, in his excellent work on Veterinary Pathology, to be nearly as follows:
"Loret drinks cider at my house!" cried Fouquet, laughing. "Certainly he does, monsieur, and that is the reason why he dines there with pleasure." "Vatel," cried Fouquet, pressing the hand of his maitre d'hotel, "you are a man!
"If it were at Soulanges, now, it might be done; Monsieur Soudry represents the government there, and he doesn't wish well to the Shopman; but if you attack the Shopman and Vatel they'll defend themselves viciously; they'll say, 'The woman was to blame; she had a tree, otherwise she would have let her bundle be examined on the highroad; she wouldn't have run away; if an accident happened to her it was through her own fault. No, you can't trust to that plan."
First promise to King Corny, to settle in the Black Islands; a gratuitous promise, signifying nothing read Burlamaqui: second promise to Mademoiselle, to go and live with her at Paris; with her on the face of it absurd! a promise extorted too under fear of my life, of immediate peril of being talked to death see Vatel on extorted promises void: third promise to my angel, Dora, to live wherever she pleases; but that's a lover's promise, made to be broken see Love's Calendar, or, if you prefer the bookmen's authority, I don't doubt that, under the head of promises made when a man is not in his right senses, some of those learned fellows in wigs would bring me off sain et sauf: but now for my fourth promise I am a man of honour when I make a promise intending to keep it, no man so scrupulous; all promises made to myself come under this head; and I have promised myself to live, and make my wife live, wherever I please, or not to live with her at all.
I shall not part with another steward till I'm sure of a better. I am waiting to get rid of Sibilet, till you understand the business of steward well enough to take his place, and till Vatel is fit to succeed you. And yet, I have no ground of complaint against Sibilet. He is honest and punctual in all his dealings; he hasn't kept back a hundred francs in all these five years.
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