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He replied to Madame Rameau peevishly, "Don't trouble your head about Mademoiselle Caumartin; she is in no want of money. Of course, if I could hope for Isaura but, alas! I dare not hope. Give me my tisane."
It seemed he had a little of them all. But what do you think she used to do? 'I haven't the slightest idea. 'There's some stuff called Tisane have you ever heard of it? Bruce asked. 'It's a simple remedy, but a very good thing. Well, he used to use that. 'Did he bathe his eye with it? 'Oh, my dear Edith, you're wool-gathering. Do pull yourself together.
Here is the tisane when you are thirsty." She placed a goblet of milky liquid near the bed. What more she said Frances did not hear. It was to be! There was the morphia, and yonder the night drink within her reach. It was God's will. Colette turned out the lamp, hesitated, and sat down by the fire.
But these are mixed when wine of a particular kind is required and the produce becomes artificial. What is now wanted is a thin light wine, red or white, with the Madeira flavour, and this will be the drink of the future. The now-forgotten tisane de Madere and the 'rain-water Madeira, made for the American markets, a soft, delicate, and straw-coloured beverage, must be the models.
"C'est la fortune de la guerre, mon garcon; but calm yourself, and take this potion which Blanche has prepared for you." I drank the tisane eagerly when I heard whose fair hands had compounded it, and its effects were speedily beneficial to me, for I sank into a cool and refreshing slumber. From that day I began to mend rapidly, with all the elasticity of youth's happy time.
But as midday arrived she could stay away no longer and started forth, without a thought of the length of the walk, so great were her mingled curiosity and anxiety. She was not obliged to ask a question; she heard the frightful sounds at the very foot of the stairs. The keeper, who was carrying a cup of tisane across the corridor, stopped when he saw her. "He keeps it up well!" he said.
When there was only one pile left, La Sarriette objected to her aunt taking it, as she had commenced; and she suddenly divided it between Mademoiselle Saget and Madame Leonce, who had watched them pocket the gold with feverish impatience. "Much obliged to you!" snarled the doorkeeper. "Fifty francs for having coddled him up with tisane and broth! The old deceiver told me he had no relatives!"
'The dress of the Holy Mother which she wears on the great fêtes was nothing to them, Mere Julie told us, when she had composed herself. For all had run here and there at her first cry, and procured for her a tisane, and a cup of bouillon, and all that was good for an attack of the nerves, which was what it was at first supposed to be.
At five o'clock, some time after the hour at which she was usually summoned to dress her mistress for the evening, the maid knocked at Hortense's door, and offered her services. Madame called out, from within, that she had a migraine, and would not be dressed. 'Can I get anything for madame? asked Josephine; 'a tisane, a warm drink, something? 'Nothing, nothing. 'Will madame dine? 'No.
She thought herself his little nurse, and missing from his broth the yellow petals that she had been wont to think the charm of tisane, the housewifely little being had trotted off, unseen and unmissed, across the quadrangle, over the embankment, where she had often gathered them, or attended on the 'lessive' on the river's brink; and now she broke forth exultingly, 'Here, here is the tisane, with all the soucis.
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