It would be too ungrateful to begin with, for Donna Serafina is accustomed to me, and it would be bad on my part to forsake her and his Eminence now that they are in trouble.

And besides, what could I do elsewhere?
No, my little hole is here now." "So you will never see Auneau again ?" "No, never, that's certain." "And you don't mind being buried here, in their ground which smells of sulphur ?" She burst into a frank laugh.

"Oh!" she said, "I don't mind where I am when I'm dead.

One sleeps well everywhere.

And it's funny that you should be so anxious as to what there may be when one's dead.