Chapter
1 IV | the wedding except Aunt Lison, the baron’s sister, who
2 IV | changed it from Lise to Lison, and since Jeanne’s birth,
3 IV | birth, she had become “Aunt Lison,” a poor relation, very
4 IV | date: “It was the time that Lison had that attack.”~They never
5 IV | that time Lise, presently Lison, was considered feeble-minded.
6 IV | was situated.~When Aunt Lison entered the dining-room
7 IV | Why, I have not seen Aunt Lison this morning!”~When they
8 IV | morning!”~When they said “Aunt Lison,” these two words awakened
9 IV | so much trouble, my poor Lison.”~One evening, toward the
10 IV | light of a lamp, and Aunt Lison was sitting beside them
11 IV | is so delicious outside! Lison will wait for them, will
12 IV | for them, will you not, Lison?”~The old maid raised her
13 IV | with his wife.~Then Aunt Lison rose in her turn, and leaving
14 IV | she said, “there is Aunt Lison looking at us.”~The vicomte
15 IV | without thinking:~“Yes, Aunt Lison is looking at us.”~And they
16 IV | entered the drawing-room, Aunt Lison had gone back to her work.
17 IV | what is the matter, Aunt Lison?”~Then the poor woman, her
18 IV | showing tender solicitude for Lison; and the vicomte had turned
19 IV | forgotten all about Aunt Lison’s tears.~The two weeks preceding
20 VII | floor. The door opened. Aunt Lison came running in with Widow
21 VII | steadily.~Little mother, Aunt Lison, the baron had come, so
22 VII | he went out he met Aunt Lison coming to see her patient.
23 VIII| always ailing, while Aunt Lison, uneasy, and busied about
24 VIII| cook, Ludivine, and Aunt Lison remained discreetly concealed
25 VIII| baron was godfather and Aunt Lison godmother. The child was
26 VIII| beginning of September Aunt Lison left without any commotion.
27 IX | her. She suddenly saw Aunt Lison gliding in behind her. She
28 IX | bowing to the ladies. Aunt Lison and Comtesse Gilberte alone
29 X | of a day or two that Aunt Lison was back, and in her feverish
30 XI | Little father and Aunt Lison never left her; they had
31 XI | ride on his knee, and Aunt Lison, neglected by him as she
32 XI | affairs distressed Aunt Lison, and when she was alone,
33 XI | of his first communion.~Lison came to Jeanne one morning
34 XI | her father, she asked Aunt Lison to take the boy to the catechism
35 XI | Abbé Tobiac, despite Aunt Lison’s entreaties, refused to
36 XI | once began to sob. Aunt Lison timidly remained in a dark
37 XI | room. Jeanne, aided by Aunt Lison, spent the whole day in
38 XI | long embrace, while Aunt Lison remained in the background,
39 XI | hours, his mother, Aunt Lison and the baron starting out
40 XI | also grandfather and Aunt Lison. I hope to see you soon.~“
41 XI | letter to the baron. Aunt Lison was called and read over
42 XI | the end of the winter Aunt Lison, who was now sixty-eight,
43 XI | last five nights at Aunt Lison’s bedside, allowed herself
44 XIII| sometimes even with Aunt Lison. She did over again things
45 XIV | thick grass beside Aunt Lison, each trying what they could
46 XIV | little smaller, and then Aunt Lison’s rather shaky characters.
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