After forty years of continuous struggle, fortune had at last yielded to them.

Eventually she became so mad over it that she forgot all prudence.
"It's to me you owe all this!" she exclaimed, in an outburst of triumph.
"If I hadn't looked after you, you would have been nicely taken in by the insurgents.

You booby, it was Garconnet, Sicardot, and the others, that had got to be thrown to those wild beasts." Then, showing her teeth, loosened by age, she added, with a girlish smile: "Well, the Republic for ever! It has made our path clear." But Pierre had turned cross.

"That's just like you!" he muttered; "you always fancy that you've foreseen everything.

It was I who had the idea of hiding myself.