"Well, you're not so foolish as I thought, then.

Do you open letters like some one of my acquaintance ?" "No; but I listen at doors," Aristide replied, with great assurance.
This frankness did not displease the old woman.

She began to smile again, and asked more softly: "Well, then, you blockhead, how is it you didn't rally to us sooner ?" "Ah! that's where it is," the young man said, with some embarrassment.
"I didn't have much confidence in you.

You received such idiots: my father-in-law, Granoux, and the others!--And then, I didn't want to go too far.

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