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al old hag stopped, looked at me, and began to laugh. When she had laughed her fill, she said:
"It's no use for you to call and yell, as she ain't here; you might just as well sing!"
"She is not here? You should have told me that at once, madame."
"In that case, madame, will you be kind enough to tell me where I can find mademoiselle your niece? I wanted to see her about mending a shawl--at Madame Berlingot's."
"Rosette told me, the last time I saw her: 'I'm going to work at Aunt Piquette's, Rue aux Ours, No. 35.'--Well, have I got any embers, I wonder? Let's look and see!"
"Exceedingly obliged, madame."
That old woman set my nerves on edge! Thank God! I was clear of her at last! I made all haste to Aunt Piquette's, Rue aux Ours.
I rang at Madame Piquette's door. A woman appeared who was fully sixty years of age, but who wore a cap overladen with flowers and pink ribbons. Where will not coquetry build its nest?
"Madame Piquette?"
"That's me, monsieur; take the trouble to come in."
And she made a formal reverence, as she stood aside to let me pass.
"I certainly shall not receive you on the landing, monsieur; please walk in."
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