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assurance with which the professor's wife had placed
him in imagination at Madame Vernet's table.
"My dear child, I do not know," said the professor in a repentant tone.
"Then you have not dined," said Madame Marmus, whose attitude
remained that of the purest innocence.
"With what could he have dined, Madame? He had two sous," said
Madame Adolphe, looking at Madame Marmus with an accusing air.
"Ah, I am truly to be pitied, my poor Madame Adolphe," said Madame
Marmus. "This sort of thing has been going on for twenty years, and I
am not yet accustomed to it. Six days after our wedding, we were going
out of our room one morning to take breakfast. M. Marmus hears the
drum of the Polytechnic School pupils of whom he was the professor.
He quits me to go and see them pass. I was nineteen years of age and
when I pouted, you cannot guess what he said to me. He said, 'These
young people are the flower and the glory of France!' This is how my
marriage began. You can judge of the rest."
"Oh, Monsieur, is it possible?" asked Madame Adolphe with an
indignant air.
"I have cornered Sinard!" exclaimed M. Marmus triumphantly.
"Oh, he would let himself die!" exclaimed Madame Adolphe.
"Get something for him to eat," said Madame Marmus. "He would let
himself do anything. Ah, my good Madame Adolphe, a man of science,
you see, is a man who knows nothing--of life."
The malady was cured by a cataplasm of Italian cheese that the man of
science ate without knowing what he was eating, for he held Sinard in a
corner--
"Poor Madame," said the kind Madame Adolphe. "I pity you. He was
really so absent-minded as that!"
And Madame Adolphe forgot the strange avowal of her mistress.

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