Le Sorcier de Meudon

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Extrait: ...de maris seraient chasses a coups d'aiguilles et de fuseaux. Le sceptre alors ne degenererait jamais en quenouille; mais la quenouille s'erigerait en sceptre. Pauvre Violette Deschamps, tu n'es pas de ce monde-ci; et quand ton fils n'aura plus besoin de toi, ta vie se perdra dans la sienne! Je ne veux pas te croire sage; car je ne rirais plus, et voila deja que je pleure. Je te prends pour un paradoxe: je le vois et je n'y crois pas. Apres ces reflexions du penseur, le medecin conseilla doucement a Violette de se calmer, et d'eviter autant qu'elle pourrait les divagations de la pensee et les emotions trop vives de l'amour. -Dormez, lui dit-il en lui passant la main devant les yeux; dormez, apaisez-vous, soyez calme, rafraichissez votre sang, pour que le lait du cher petit soit doux et pur. Nous songerons a votre enfant et a vous; vivez pour lui, et laissez reposer votre ame, nous allons travailler pour vous. En ce moment, frere Jean vint frapper a la porte de la maisonnette. -Je suis a vous, dit maitre Francois. -Que me veut ce moine? demanda Violette avec inquietude. -Il ne vous veut rien; il vient me chercher pour le seigneur de la Deviniere qui est malade. -Ah! fit Violette avec douceur, j'en suis fachee, car il a ete bon pour moi. -Le seigneur de la Deviniere est mon pere, dit maitre Francois en otant un instant sa calotte et sa longue barbe qu'il remit aussitot; ou du moins il etait mon pere. Je sais qu'il a ete rigoureux pour vous comme pour moi. Je veux qu'il cesse de reconnaitre son fils, et qu'il reconnaisse le votre; je l'adopte deja en son nom, ce cher petit! Mais quoi! il nous fait la grimace! il pleure, il refuse de teter! Allons, je crois que vous allez le mettre dans de nouveaux langes, et je sors assez a propos, Croyez-moi, chere enfant, vivez sur la terre, puisqu'il le faut et sachez bien que les poupons ne vivent pas seulement d'amour maternel. Vous avez un brave coeur dont..."

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