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Ball of Fat 27
A church bell summoned the faithful to a baptism. Ball of Fat had a child
being brought up by peasants at Yvetot. She did not see him once a year, and
never thought of him; but the idea of the child who was about to be baptized
induced a sudden wave of tenderness for her own, and she insisted on being
present at the ceremony.
As soon as she had gone out, the rest of the company looked at one another and
then drew their chairs together; for they realized that they must decide on some
course of action. Loiseau had an inspiration: he proposed that they should ask
the officer to detain Ball of Fat only, and to let the rest depart on their
way.
Monsieur Follenvie was intrusted with this commission, but he returned to them
almost immediately. The German, who knew human nature, had shown him the door.
He intended to keep all the travellers until his condition had been complied
with.
Whereupon Madame Loiseau's vulgar temperament broke bounds.
"We're not going to die of old age here!" she cried. "Since it's that vixen's
trade to behave so with men I don't see that she has any right to refuse one
more than another. I may as well tell you she took any lovers she could get at
Rouen—even coachmen! Yes, indeed, madame—the coachman at the prefecture! I know
it for a fact, for he buys his wine of us. And now that it is a question of
getting us out of a difficulty she puts on virtuous airs, the drab! For my part,
I think this officer has behaved very well. Why, there were three others of us,
any one of whom he would undoubtedly have preferred. But no, he contents himself
with the girl who is common property. He respects married women. Just think. He
is master here. He had only to say: 'I wish it!' and he might have taken us by
force, with the help of his soldiers."
The two other women shuddered; the eyes of pretty Madame Carre-Lamadon
glistened, and she grew pale, as if the officer were indeed in the act of laying
violent hands on her.
The men, who had been discussing the subject among themselves, drew near.
Loiseau, in a state of furious resentment, was for delivering up "that miserable
woman," bound hand and foot, into the enemy's power. But the count, descended
from three generations of ambassadors, and endowed, moreover, with the
lineaments of a diplomat, was in favor of more tactful measures.
"We must persuade her," he said.
Then they laid their plans.
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