I will fit them up on a plan of my own, and
none shall say me nay; that is all the change I shall make."
"Is that all? and you tried to frighten the slave of the lamp with
the weight of your commands. A suite of rooms for my father, and
one for good Dame Rochelle! Really, and what do you devote to me,
Amelie?"
"Oh, all the rest, with its mistress included, for the reason that
what is good enough for me is good enough for you, Pierre," said she
gaily.
"You little economist! Why, one would say you had studied
housekeeping under Madame Painchaud."
"And so I have. You do not know what a treasure I am, Pierre," said
she, laughing merrily. "I graduated under mes tantes in the kitchen
of the Ursulines, and received an accessit as bonne menagere which
in secret I prize more than the crown of honor they gave me."
"My fortune is made, and I am a rich man for life," exclaimed
Pierre, clapping his hands; "why, I shall have to marry you like the
girls of Acadia, with a silver thimble on your finger and a pair of
scissors at your girdle, emblems of industrious habits and proofs of
a good housewife!"
"Yes, Pierre, and I will comb your hair to my own liking.
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