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CHAPTER V

DIVRS CLAPS OF THUNDER

FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON

On the following day, Ma’am Bougon, as Courfeyrac
styled the old portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the
Gorbeau hovel, Ma’am Bougon, whose name was, in reality,
Madame Burgon, as we have found out, but this iconoclast,
Courfeyrac, respected nothing,— Ma’am Bougon observed,
with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in
his new coat.
He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not pro-
ceed further than his bench midway of the alley. He seated
himself there, as on the preceding day, surveying from a dis-
tance, and clearly making out, the white bonnet, the black
dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir from
it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg
closed. He did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire.
He concluded that they had quitted the garden by the gate
on the Rue de l’Ouest. Later on, several weeks afterwards,
when he came to think it over, he could never recall where
he had dined that evening.

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