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"We've got it under control," he said, "but the house is entirely burnt, and what's worse, several children, five or six, perhaps, are lost. One is buried beneath, two have been suffocated, and we don't know where the other three are." "How did it happen?" asked M. Vulfran. "La Tiburce was asleep, drunk. She is still in that condition. The biggest of the children were playing with the matches.
"Yes," she said to M. Vulfran, "we will make her an educated girl. Do you know she has eyes like a gazelle. I have never seen a gazelle, but I should imagine their great brown eyes are like hers. They are wonderful...." The next day when M. Vulfran returned to his home at the dinner hour he asked the governess what she thought of her new pupil. Mlle.
"You will stay here," continued M. Vulfran. "Your food will be given to you and also a lodging at the inn. You will have nothing to pay there. And if we are pleased with you, you will receive something extra when Monsieur Fabry returns." She was an interpreter; that was far better than pushing trucks.
She hesitated. Her little face wore a very worried look. "Why do you hesitate?" asked the blind man. "Don't you think that you ought to tell me everything?" "Yes, indeed," said Perrine, fervently. Was this not the best way to solve her difficulties? She told what had happened when Theodore had come into the office. "Was that all?" asked M. Vulfran, when she stopped. "Yes, sir; that was all."
"Well, then, ask them," said M. Vulfran, "why they have come a week earlier than the date arranged for their coming, because it so happens that the engineer who was to direct them in their work, and who speaks English, is away for a few days." Perrine translated the phrase accurately, and one of the men answered at once.
But Perrine's presence had no effect upon the terrible aunt. Seeing Rosalie arrive at such an unusual hour, and noticing that her hand was wrapped up, she cried out shrilly: "Now, then, you've gone and hurt yourself, you lazy bones. I bet you did it on purpose." "Oh, I'm goin' to be paid," retorted Rosalie, scornfully. "You think so, do you?" "Monsieur Vulfran told me that I should."
Coco is as quiet as a lamb, and she can well replace this drunken creature." He was assisted into the carriage, and Perrine took her place beside him. She was very grave, for she felt the responsibility of her position. "Not too quickly," said M. Vulfran, when she touched Coco with the end of her whip. "Oh, please, sir, I don't want to go quickly, I assure you," she said, nervously.
"I also would be happy," replied Perrine. "Those words prove that you are grateful for what he has done for you, but, then, you are not of the family." Perrine assumed her most innocent air. "Yes, but that does not prevent me from being attached to M. Vulfran," she said, "believe me, I am." "Of course," answered Mme.
M. Vulfran went up to the bereaved parents, who sat with their dead children on their knees. Then one of the women, who thought perhaps that a supreme help had come, looked up with a gleam of hope in her eyes. When she recognized M. Vulfran she raised her arm to him threateningly.
Just before she went to bed, Bastien came to tell her that his master wished her to accompany him the next morning at the usual hour. "He wants to get back to work, but will he be able?" said the old butler. "It will be better for him if he can. Work means life for him." The next day at the usual hour Perrine was waiting for M. Vulfran. With bent back he came forward, guided by Bastien.
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