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Updated: August 26, 2024
"But I must say I don't think you are the best of managers," said M. Plon with a magisterial sweep of his hand which took in all the poor surroundings. "With your earnings you might do better than you do, Madame Didier. One mouth to feed, one person to dress " "There is Périne," faltered poor Marie. "Yes, there is Périne, and it is true those imbeciles have appetites like wolves.
Don't move, and don't look behind you, and then, by-and-by, you shall have a basin of the soup. If only I had something to put into it, something good, for bread and onions are not too fattening. However, there is plenty to be thankful for. Remember, Périne, you must not take your eyes off the soup."
I bit my lips with anger to find myself in such honourable company, but putting a good face on a bad game I greeted everybody politely, and then drawing a roll of a hundred Louis from my pocket I presented them to Master Perine Talvis, telling him I was glad to be able to return them to him with my best thanks.
I bit my lips with anger to find myself in such honourable company, but putting a good face on a bad game I greeted everybody politely, and then drawing a roll of a hundred Louis from my pocket I presented them to Master Perine Talvis, telling him I was glad to be able to return them to him with my best thanks.
By this time the poor Baron, utterly staggered and bewildered in presence of such a concourse of ancient nobility, did not know on which leg to stand. How could he and his family ever hold up their heads again? We returned to Compiegne by St. Perine, where there was a most enchanting view, and drove straight through a long avenue and entered La cour d'honneur.
And that is a satisfaction which I am favoured with tolerably often. Well, Périne, my child, it interests you this occupation does it not? Do you think you will ever learn to make soup?" The girl nodded many times. "Périne eat it," she said. "Listen to her!" Marie exclaimed, patting her cheek approvingly. "And that any one should say she has no sense!
But Périne screamed and Plon waved him energetically back. Finding his prisoner cowed he launched some strong invectives at him. "You're a thief and a cut-throat, that's what you are!" he said, shivering. "Keep off, keep off! You could no more stand in Jean Didier's shoes than you could in mine, for he was a decent, peaceable young fellow, and more than that, he was shot.
"That I hear; but what were you doing to make any one so cruel?" "Périne only looking at pretty bright figures, mother; so pretty with the light on them. 7639." "What is she talking about?" said Madame Didier, puzzled, "7639?" "Yes, yes," said the girl eagerly, and then she broke off again into her lamentations, which lasted until Marie had bathed her hurt, and soothed her by degrees.
"Come, come, come!" said Marie reassuringly, "tell me a little more about this, and don't be a baby, Périne. Remember that you are a big girl. No one will come here to beat you; if they did, good M. Plon would not let them come up the stairs. Tell me who did it?" She sat down on the stool as she spoke, and let the poor clumsy creature rest on her knee. "The man, the bad man!" howled Périne.
To be cooped up here, to see no one but Marie and this idiot; to be aware that at any moment any thing, the merest trifle, might betray me to death, or at least transportation to New California, was ever man so unhappy in this world!" Jean, who had a turn for the melodramatic, tugged despairingly with both hands at his hair, Périne, meanwhile, intent upon the soup, bent forward and stirred it.
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