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Updated: June 24, 2025
"And you absolutely think to persuade me of this when not a soul comes in and out of this house without my knowing. A pretty tale!" Jean muttered "Blockhead!" under his breath. Aloud he said, "But M. Plon am I not here now?" "No, you are not!" Plon retorted, "or if you are, you shall soon be out of it again. Police! Help, help!" "If only Marie were here!" groaned Jean.
The cabbage will be ready in a few minutes; meanwhile, tell me what more news you have got there in the paper. M. Plon has a great respect for my scholarship, but he is afraid I waste my time over his journals aha, M. Plon, you little know that I have got my reader!" "Plon is an ass," said Jean gruffly, for he did not like any one to find a flaw in the wife whom he often scolded himself.
Nevertheless, though it seemed to poor Jean that the very streets must tingle with her cries, it is possible, for the upper-stories of the house had early risers for their dwellers, that the deaf old woman left on the fifth floor might have heard nothing; but unfortunately M. Plon had taken it into his head to make a visitation to those uninhabited rooms of his in which some one had housed his furniture, and at this moment was on his way.
They might hammer and appeal in the strongest language of their vocabulary, but Plon snored unmoved, and nothing short of a fire in the house would have turned him out of his bed. Gradually this became so well understood, that his lodgers accommodated themselves to it as to any other of the inexorable laws of fate.
Plon did something for him, perhaps knocked off the rent, but he implored Monnier to show his gratitude by saying nothing, and he never gave him more of a greeting than the sidelong twist he vouchsafed to the other lodgers. For the rest, his benevolence depended in a great measure upon his temper, and he prided himself upon being very terrible at times.
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