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Judge then, just now this wretch who broke in the door, if you had been alone." "Oh! mamma, hush; only to think of it makes me shudder." At this moment some one knocked sharply at the door. "Heavens, it is he," cried Madame de Fermont, and she pushed with all her strength the table against the door. Her fears, however, ceased when she heard the voice of Micou.
But the followers of the able Béhagle had not his capability. After his twenty years of prosperity the factory languished under the direction of his widow and sons, and that of the brothers Filleul, and Micou, up to the time when the Regent Philip was fumbling the reigns of government, and when everything but scepticism and Les Precieuses was sinking into feeble disintegration.
"Come, Daddy Micou, don't get vexed; it is yes or no; I do not force you. But enough." The receiver, reflecting that he was at the mercy of Nicholas, arose, fearing to be assailed with new demands if he prolonged his visit. "You shall have your cap," said he; "but take care, if you ask me for anything more, I shall give nothing; happen what may, you will lose as much as I."
When you come to bring me some more provisions, you can give me news of my mother and Calabash!" "Yes, it must be so." "Oh! I forget, while you are out, buy me also a new cap, of plaid velvet, with a tassel; mine is no longer fit to be worn." "Decidedly you are joking!" "No, Micou. I want a cap of plaid velvet; it is my notion." "But you are determined, then, to make me sleep on straw?"
"You made a good guess one hundred and forty-eight pounds, my boy." "And you will owe me " "Exactly thirty francs." "Thirty francs, when copper is a franc a pound? Thirty francs!" "We will say thirty-five, and don't turn up your nose, or I will send you to the devil you, copper, dog and cart." "But, Micou you cheat me too much! there's no sense in it."
They are, perhaps, sick; for two days they have not come down. It certainly is not from indigestion; for I do not think they have cooked anything since they have been here." "If you had only such lodgers as they, Micou " "That comes and goes.
Daddy Micou took out of an old chest a bottle of brandy, a cracked glass, a cup without a handle, and poured out the liquor. "Your health, old 'un!" "Yours, my boy, and the ladies' at home!" "Thank you; and your lodgings come on well?" "So, so. I have always some lodgers for whom I fear the visits of the grabs; but they pay more in consequence." "Why?" "How stupid you are!
I shall be soft enough this time again to do just as Burette wishes, and Micou also; but he is a friend." "Never mind; the seller of old iron is a robber, just like the rest, but these rascally receivers know one has need of them," said Calabash, trying on one of the shawls, "and they abuse it." "There's nothing more," said Nicholas, reaching the bottom of the box.
No charge being brought against Tortillard, and Bras-Rouge having been provisionally left in prison, the child, on the demand of his father, had been reclaimed by Micou the receiver.
"As you like," said Micou, sighing. "I have busied myself with all your little commissions." "Well spoken, Micou. I knew well that you would not forget friends. The weed?" "I have left two pounds at the office, my lad." "Is it good?" "None better." "And the ham?" "Also left there, with a quartern loaf.
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