Part 25 (1/2)
”We had better begin to load up the cart,” she called to her husband in a high-pitched querulous voice; ”the corridor is getting too much encumbered”
She looked suspiciously at Chauvelin and at Armand, and when she encountered the foraze she suddenly shi+vered and drew her black shawl closer round her shoulders
”Bah!” she said, ”I shall be glad to get out of this God-forsaken hole
I hate the very sight of these walls”
”Indeed, the citizeness does not look over robust in health,” said Chauvelin with studied politeness ”The stay in the tower did not,forth all the fruits of prosperity which she had anticipated”
The wo in her hollow eyes
”I don't knohat youof her wide shoulders
”Oh! I”I am so interested in your removal; busy ot to help you with the furniture?”
”Dupont, the e,” said Simon curtly
”Citizen Heron would not allow any one to cohtly too Have the new commissaries co upstairs for the others”
”And Capet?”
”He is all safe Citizen Heron came to see him, and then he told me to lock the little vermin up in the inner room Citizen Cochefer had just arrived by that ti all this while thefor orders Bent nearly double, he was gru audibly at his uncomfortable position
”Does the citizen want to break --quoi?”
He asked if he should begin to carry the furniture out into the street
”Two sous have I got to pay every tenunder his breath; ”we shall be all night at this rate”
”Begin to load then,” coin with this sofa”
”You'll have to give me a hand with that,” said the ht in the cart I'll be back directly”
”Take so down,” said Madame Simon in her querulous voice
The le by the door
He hoisted it on his back and shuffled aith it across the landing and out through the gate