human
Supposing I should go into the uncle's room, what should I say?.... And I stood still, with my head a void, and my heart beating. But in a few moments, I thought of an answer:
gpt
Of course, I shall say that I am looking for Rivet's room, to speak to him about an important matter, and I began to inspect all the doors, trying to find hers, and at last I took hold of a handle at a venture, turned it and went in ... there was Henriette, sitting on her bed and looking at me in tears. So I gently turned the key, and going up to her on tip-toe, I said: I forgot to ask you for something to read, Mademoiselle.
human
If you go on like this, you will end by spoiling the affair of _that pig of a Morin_!
gpt
I have had enough of that pig Morin's affair, do you hear?
human
You are a mere brute! And he replied:
gpt
My dear fellow, you were beginning to excite me confoundedly.
human
Well, have you settled the affair of _that pig of a Morin_? All La Rochelle was excited about it, and Rivet, who had got over his ill-humor on the journey, had great difficulty in keeping himself from laughing as he said:
gpt
Yes, we have managed it, thanks to Labarbe.
human
It is all settled, you dirty scamp, but don't do such a thing again.
gpt
and that epithet went through him like a sword thrust every time he heard it. When a street boy called after him:
human
Pig! he turned his head instinctively. His friends also overwhelmed him with horrible jokes, and used to ask him, whenever they were eating ham:
gpt
It's a bit of you?
human
You do not know me again? she said. And I stammered out:
gpt
But ... no Madame.
human
Henriette Bonnel.
gpt
Ah!
human
I have been intending to go and see you for a long time, my dear sir, for my wife has very often talked to me about you. I know ... yes, I know under what painful circumstances you made her acquaintance, and I know also how perfectly you behaved, how full of delicacy, tact and devotion you showed yourself in the affair.... He hesitated, and then said in a lower tone, as if he had been saying something low and coarse....
gpt
In the affair of that pig of a Morin.
human
As God wishes. Amen! the priest said. Then he ceased, opened a book, and, as he did every week, he began to give notice of all the small parish events for the following week. He was an old man with white hair who had been in the parish for over forty years, and from the pulpit he was in the habit of discoursing familiarly to them all, and so he went on:
gpt
I recommend Désiré Vallin, who is very ill, to your prayers, and also la Paumelle, who is not recovering from her confinement satisfactorily.
human
I will not have the lads and the girls come into the churchyard in the evening, as they do; otherwise I shall inform the rural policeman. Monsieur Césaire Omont would like to find a respectable girl servant. He reflected for a few moments, and then added:
gpt
That is all, my brethren, and I wish that all of you may find the Divine mercy.
human
I think that place at Maître Omont's ought to be a good one, as he is a widower and his daughter-in-law does not like him. He is all alone and has money. I think it would be a good thing to send Adelaide there.
gpt
He has got some money, that is certain, but any one going there ought to be very sharp, and Adelaide is not that at all. And his wife replied:
human
I might go and see, all the same, and turning to her daughter, a strapping, silly looking girl with yellow hair and fat red cheeks like apples, she said:
gpt
Do you hear, you great silly? You are to go to Maître Omont's and offer yourself as his servant, and you will do whatever he tells you.
human
Listen to me, girl, and try not to make a mistake about what I am going to say to you ...