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The curé at home always says, 'Now, Jacques Colibris there's a man who is a model husband and father." He drank a deep draught of cider. "They arrive to-morrow," interpolated Madame Chalumeau hastily, with a hunted expression, "Victor and Félicité and Théodore. Also Théo's fiancée, an English girl. I have a letter from Victor I will read it to you."
"Look at the crowd," cried out the old man suddenly. "It must be a funeral!" "Father!" Madame Chalumeau crossed herself with fingers that fairly trembled with haste. "How can you? When it is your own wedding." As the carriage stopped Victor leaned forward and laid his hand on his father's. "Father this is a splendid and and most happy day for all of us.
Then one day his father brought him to see his aunt who had married Monsieur Chalumeau, my uncle, you see? and I was there. And we went up to the castle. You have been there? It is where the Conqueror who conquered England was born, in a tiny little stone room high above the tower. You know the story of Arlette?" Brigit nodded, but she did not know. She wanted to hear about Joyselle. "Bon.
The speaker looked at him a little and then took in their hostess, to whom M. de Chalumeau was serving up another epigram, which the charming creature received with a droop of the head and eyes that strayed through the window. "Don't pretend to tell me," Madame Clairin suddenly exhaled, "that you're not in love with that pretty woman."
"A magnificent dinner, I am told," M. Perret, the apothecary, was saying in his high voice like that of a grass-hopper chirping in the heat. "Thildette Chalumeau told me: Pot au feu, veal cooked in a casserole in its own juice, rabbits stewed in wine, gigot rôti, pâtisserie and many other things. Yvonne Gaude is cooking it, but Thildette prepared most of the things with her own hands "
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