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Updated: June 28, 2025
The little Fabien Doucet has been lame for seven years; we shall bring him to Monseigneur, and he will mend his leg and make him well. Then we shall believe in saints afterwards." Madame Patoux turned her warm red face round from the fire over which she was bending, and stared at her precocious offspring aghast. "What!
"No, there are none," said Patoux himself, drawing his pipe out of his mouth slowly, and looking intently at its well-sucked stem "It is all the same sort of thing. A child is sick a child is cured and it is either God or the Devil who has done it. Some people prefer to think it is the Devil, some give the praise to God. It was exactly like that whenever our Lord did a good deed.
The police have hunted high and low for trace of him, but can find none. But I have my suspicions " "What are they?" enquired Midon, "That he went out like Judas, and hanged himself?" "Truly he might have done that without loss or trouble to anyone!" said Patoux tranquilly, "But he thought too well of himself to be quite so ready for a meeting with le bon Dieu! No! I will tell you what I think.
She had very pretty, curly, brown hair, and Madame Patoux took a pride in brushing and plaiting it neatly. "I may be like Diane de Poitiers after all," she remarked, peering at herself in the small mirror when her thick locks were smoothed and tied back for the night "Why should I not be?"
She used to swear in her mad speech that if ever she met the man who had spoilt her life for her, she would kill him; and that is just what I believe she has done!" "But would she kill herself also?" demanded Pierre "And what has become of one or both bodies?" "Ah! There thou dost ask more than I can answer!" said Patoux.
Thus Madame Patoux, with breathless pauses between her sentences, and many profound curtseyings; but the good Cardinal waived aside her excuses and protestations, and calling her "My daughter", signed the cross on her brow with paternal gentleness, assuring her that he would give her as little trouble as any other casual visitor. "Trouble!
On this particular night when Papa Patoux returned to the bosom of his family, he, though a dull-witted man generally, did not fail to note the dove-like spirit of calm that reigned over his entire household.
"Never saw him thyself!" he cried, "And yet thou dost make the sign of the cross at the thought of him! Diantre! Patoux, thou art crazy!" "Maybe maybe," said Patoux mildly, they were walking together out of the cemetery by this time in the wake of the rapidly dispersing crowd, "But I have always taken my wife's word, and I take it now.
"It would be an objection no doubt, and an irreverance perhaps to smoke a pipe before you, Monsieur Monsieur " "Cazeau," finished the secretary with another pallid smile "Claude Cazeau, a poor scribe, at your service! And I beg of you, Monsieur Jean Patoux, to smoke at your distinguished convenience!"
A great many more customers now came to Martine's stall, and for upwards of an hour there was shrill argument and driving of bargains till she had pretty well cleared her counter of all its stock. Then she sat down again and looked to right and left of the market-place for any sign of the Patoux children returning with her little son, but there was not a glimpse of them anywhere.
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