Chapter
1 IV | one to the wedding except Aunt Lison, the baron’s sister,
2 IV | s birth, she had become “Aunt Lison,” a poor relation,
3 IV | where it was situated.~When Aunt Lison entered the dining-room
4 IV | say: “Why, I have not seen Aunt Lison this morning!”~When
5 IV | morning!”~When they said “Aunt Lison,” these two words
6 IV | the light of a lamp, and Aunt Lison was sitting beside
7 IV | went up with his wife.~Then Aunt Lison rose in her turn,
8 IV | window, the silhouette of the aunt, outlined by the light of
9 IV | See,” she said, “there is Aunt Lison looking at us.”~The
10 IV | without thinking:~“Yes, Aunt Lison is looking at us.”~
11 IV | entered the drawing-room, Aunt Lison had gone back to her
12 IV | It is time to go to bed, aunt,” said Jeanne, approaching
13 IV | Jeanne, approaching her.~Her aunt turned her head, and her
14 IV | her knees, and taking her aunt’s hands away from her face,
15 IV | Why, what is the matter, Aunt Lison?”~Then the poor woman,
16 IV | conceal his mirth.~But the aunt suddenly rose, laying her
17 IV | Jeanne murmured:~“Poor aunt!” Julien replied. “She must
18 IV | had forgotten all about Aunt Lison’s tears.~The two weeks
19 VII | floor. The door opened. Aunt Lison came running in with
20 VII | quietly.~Her mother and aunt watched over her anxiously,
21 VII | steadily.~Little mother, Aunt Lison, the baron had come,
22 VII | As he went out he met Aunt Lison coming to see her
23 VIII| now always ailing, while Aunt Lison, uneasy, and busied
24 VIII| The cook, Ludivine, and Aunt Lison remained discreetly
25 VIII| baron was godfather and Aunt Lison godmother. The child
26 VIII| the beginning of September Aunt Lison left without any commotion.
27 IX | embraced her. She suddenly saw Aunt Lison gliding in behind
28 IX | gravely bowing to the ladies. Aunt Lison and Comtesse Gilberte
29 X | end of a day or two that Aunt Lison was back, and in her
30 XI | degrees. Little father and Aunt Lison never left her; they
31 XI | a ride on his knee, and Aunt Lison, neglected by him
32 XI | condition of affairs distressed Aunt Lison, and when she was
33 XI | told his grandfather of his aunt’s wonderful revelations.~
34 XI | to her father, she asked Aunt Lison to take the boy to
35 XI | the Abbé Tobiac, despite Aunt Lison’s entreaties, refused
36 XI | with his mother and his aunt.~He now loved to dig in
37 XI | Jeanne at once began to sob. Aunt Lison timidly remained in
38 XI | school room. Jeanne, aided by Aunt Lison, spent the whole day
39 XI | in a long embrace, while Aunt Lison remained in the background,
40 XI | couple of hours, his mother, Aunt Lison and the baron starting
41 XI | and also grandfather and Aunt Lison. I hope to see you
42 XI | this letter to the baron. Aunt Lison was called and read
43 XI | Toward the end of the winter Aunt Lison, who was now sixty-eight,
44 XI | the last five nights at Aunt Lison’s bedside, allowed
45 XIII| and sometimes even with Aunt Lison. She did over again
46 XIV | in the thick grass beside Aunt Lison, each trying what
47 XIV | little smaller, and then Aunt Lison’s rather shaky characters.
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