Yes , I am greatly glad that I make the fine surprise for you as you come all weary to this place of noise . Give to me the billets , for I am still mademoiselle 's servant and go to find the coffers . ' He got my trunks , put me into a carriage , and as we rolled merrily away I asked how he chanced to meet me so unexpectedly . Knowing where I intended to stay , he had called occasionally till I notified Madame D. of the day and hour of my arrival , and then he had come to ` make the fine surprise . ' He enjoyed the joke like a true boy , and I was glad to see how well he looked , and how gay he seemed . ` You are better ? ' I said . ' I truly hope so . The winter was good to me and I cough less . It is a small hope , but I do not enlarge my fear by a sad face . I yet work and save a little purse , so that I may not be a heaviness to those who have the charity to finish me if I fall back and yet die . ' I would not hear of that , and told him he looked as well and happy as if he had found a fortune . He laughed , and answered with his fine bow , ' I have . Behold , you come to make the fête for me . I find also here my friends Joseph and Napoleon . Poor as mouses of the church , as you say , but brave boys , and we work together with much gaiety . ' When I asked if he had leisure to be my guide about Paris , for my time was short and I wanted to see everything ; he pranced , and told me he had promised himself a holiday , and had planned many excursions the most wonderful , charming , and gay . Then , having settled me at Madame 's , he went blithely away to what I afterwards discovered were very poor lodgings , across the river . Next day began the pleasantest fortnight in all my year of travel . Laddie appeared early , elegant to behold , in a new hat and buff gloves , and was immensely amused because the servant informed me that my big son had arrived .
I believe the first thing a woman does in XXXXX is to buy a new bonnet .
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