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'Voyons', speak, explain yourself!" The time was far distant when these explosions surprised her, though they always pained her. "I speak stupidly," she said. "What will you? I am stupid; forgive me." These words, "forgive me," were more cruel than numberless reproaches, for he well knew that he had nothing to forgive in her, since she was the victim and he the criminal.
I could not have come to-day had my lady been at home; but I would not brook a hireling's dictation. Voyons, p'tite tante, tu seras miladi Warner. Dis, dis, que je te fasse mourir de baisers." She was almost stifling her aunt with kisses in the intervals of her eager speech. "The last word has been spoken, Papillon. I have sent him away and it was not the first time. I had refused him before.
I can't get anything out of him, but his fifteen sous. And the carissima signora doesn't owe it to him. She can't owe it to him. Voyons, Saupiquet, if you don't renounce your miserable pretensions you will drive me mad, you will make me burst into tears, you will make me throw you out into the street, and hold you down until you are run over by a tramcar.
"Ah, voyons, voyons," she broke in, "what did I do even then?" He laughed out at something in her tone. "You'd like it again all pictured ?" "I'm not afraid." "Why, you just simply publicly took her back." "And where was the monstrosity of that?" "In the one little right place. In your removal of every doubt " "Well, of what?" He had appeared not quite to know how to put it. But he saw at last.
Tiens, voyons, mon amie, toi-meme, tu m'as confie" and the rest was lost in the bride's ear. Apparently we were to have them, these brides, for the rest of our journey, in all stages and of all ages! Thus far none others had appeared as determined as were these two honey-mooners, that all the world should share their bliss.
"Voyons voyons, c'est ennuyeux " She broke off and gave a little husky, good-natured laugh. "I remember. You think me a bad woman. But I am not a bad woman at all. Ze leetle girls in ze chorus they are sometimes bad because they want things they 'ave no right to 'ave. They are just leetle girls with nothing to give, and they want to live ze big life and they tumble into ze gutter.
She had signed the register as Marie Dubois. "It is my real name," she explained, "but you couldn't have a good time with a name like that voyons! Only one 'usband and 'eaps of babies." She was much nearer the end than he had supposed possible. The last month had to be paid for.
She clutched him by the arm and gulped down a sob. "Mon pauvre vieux!" He tried to smile. "Want of habit. We'll get it all back soon. Voyons" he took her fat chin in his hand and turned up her face, on which make-up, perspiration and tears melted into one piteous paste. "This is not the way that battles are won." On the landing they separated.
He had very hard elbows, and soon he managed, by dint of pushing and cursing to reach the gateway of Gayole. "Voyons! enlevez-moi ca," he commanded in stentorian tones, pointing to the proclamation. The fellows of the municipal guard fell to and tore the parchment away from the door whilst the crowd looked on with stupid amazement. What did it all mean?
In a body they chorused: "But, Pupasse!" "Chère Pupasse!" "Voyons, Pupasse!" "I assure you, Pupasse!" "On the cross, Pupasse!" "Ah, Pupasse!" "We implore you, Pupasse!" The only response tears, and "I shall tell Madame Joubert." Consultations, caucuses, individual appeals, general outbursts. Pupasse stood in the corner.
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