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"I'll see about it; I may possibly be wanting some money soon." At this La Normande assumed an air of doubt, shrugged her shoulders, and told him that he was really too chicken-hearted. Her one great aim now was to embroil him with the Quenu-Gradelles, and she employed every means she could think of to effect her purpose, both anger and banter, as well as affectionate tenderness.
And then she drew her chair still nearer, and gazed at Florent with an embarrassing smile. "But you are jogging my elbow, mother, and I can't write," Muche exclaimed angrily. "There! see what a blot you've made me make! Get further away, do!" La Normande now gradually began to say a good many unpleasant things about beautiful Lisa.
"It's only the old woman who is laughing," La Sarriette remarked; "La Normande looks anything but happy." Meantime, upstairs in his bedroom, Florent allowed himself to be taken as unresistingly as a sheep. The police officers sprang roughly upon him, expecting, no doubt, that they would meet with a desperate resistance.
The officers, who examined every article of furniture, now wished to enter the little closet where Muche slept. The child had been awakened by the noise, and for the last few moments he had been crying bitterly, as though he imagined that he was going to be murdered. "This is my boy's room," said La Normande, opening the door. Muche, quite naked, ran up and threw his arms round his mother's neck.
The old woman never missed an opportunity to sound his praises; there was no lankiness, at any rate, about him, said she; he was stout and strong, with a pair of calves which would have done honour even to one of the Emperor's footmen. However, La Normande shrugged her shoulders and snappishly replied: "What do I care whether he's stout or not? I don't want him or anybody.
It goes by the name of La Porte Normande, but its slightly pointed arch disposes of the suggestion that the Normans were in some manner concerned in its construction. What interested me most at Perigueux was something that very few strangers, or even townspeople, for that matter, ever see, because, it is hidden from public view.
"Well, he is just the man I want; and I only asked for La Normande to get his address." "Then all is right," said the presidente. "Have the kindness to send for him." "Oh! he would not come down for the regent himself. If you want to see him you must go up." "Where?" "At No. 2, where you supped the other evening with the Baron de Valef. Oh! when he has money, nothing is too good for him.
"And what did the cousin say?" asked Mademoiselle Saget, with wicked intent. "The cousin!" repeated La Normande, in a shrill voice. "Do you really believe that he's a cousin? He's some lover or other, I'll wager, the great booby!" The three others protested against this. Lisa's honourability was an article of faith in the neighbourhood. "Stuff and nonsense!" retorted La Normande.
She went in shrivelled and shrunk by the frosty air, and, resting her hands on the heating-pan to warm them, remained in front of the counter buying nothing, but repeating in her shrill voice: "He was with them again yesterday; he seems to live there now. I heard La Normande call him 'my dear' on the staircase."
D'Harmental made three steps toward the door, then he remembered that Roquefinette might have some memorandum about him which might serve as a guide. In spite of his repugnance, he searched the pockets of the corpse, one after another, but the only papers he found were two or three old bills of restaurateurs, and a love-letter from La Normande.
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