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Updated: June 22, 2025
On it sits an ugly old toad. Pull up the toadstool. Then the whole place will become visible, and you will be able to consult with Babette as to how to overcome old Squint-eyes, as she calls him. "Hold this candle alight in your hand" she gave him the young pointed top of a fir-tree "it will keep off evil spells. When you have overcome the man, bind him with this grass."
She turned down a side street and disappeared, and Babette felt her strength and mind both failing her now that she was out of danger. She staggered weakly into a big, dim church, by the door of which the parting happened to have taken place. Here she sank down in a heavy, death-like swoon in front of one of the side altars, with her baby wailing fretfully at her breast.
Farmer Jean had a man with him, and between them they got the poor animal up, while Babette stood in the cold highway, her baby peeping wonderingly from the folds of her cloak. The horse was bruised and cut about the knees, but otherwise unhurt, so the men resumed their places; Babette climbed back to hers, and the heavy cart went jolting on.
Marie and Babette were in and out continually, aiding and suggesting, and Rachel had stayed with Lucy every night. During one of these she and Babette had been asked to "sit up with the corpse," Gus Peters and Dan being chosen to share their vigil.
The short road, was a pretty long one, but the shooting-match had but commenced to-day and was to last more than a week; the miller and Babette were to remain the whole time, with their relations in Interlaken. Rudy crossed the Gemmi, for he wished to go to Grindelwald. He stepped forwards merry and well, out into the fresh, light mountain air.
"I have bad news for you," he said; "Babette's illness is diphtheria, a severe case." "Oh, the poor girl!" said Patty, with impulsive sympathy. "Yes, indeed, little Babette is pretty sick. And, too, it's awfully hard on Lora. But that isn't all of it." "What else?" said Marie, breathless with suspense. "I hardly know how to tell you," and Cameron's face was very troubled.
"Rex," began Clifford again, with that fine tact for which he was celebrated, "own up! You spent last night warbling under the windows of Lisette." "Or Frisette," said Elliott, "or Cosette." "Or Babette, Lisette, Frisette, Cosette, Babette!" chanted the two young men in a sort of catch.
Corporal Van Spitter had had wisdom enough to dupe Vanslyperken, and persuade him that he was very much in love with Babette; and Vanslyperken, who was not at all averse to this amour, permitted the corporal to go on shore and make love.
"It was my poor Babette, who tought I was gone to be kill. She scream so loud, as if she had seen my ghost. But we must wait a few minute in de house, and you shall see how glad my girl is to see me once again."
It did not seem in keeping with the position of superior serenity which he had assumed, that, reading Babette's notes, he should have raged with jealousy, or that, in the loneliness of his unkempt chamber, he should have stretched out arms of longing. Even if Babette had been present, she would only have smiled her gay little smile and coquetted with him. She could not understand.
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