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"She has demanded a new lamp; I told you she would! " This communication was made me by Madame Beaurepas a couple of days later. "And she has asked for a new _tapis de lit_, and she has requested me to provide Célestine with a pair of light shoes. I told her that, as a general thing, cooks are not shod with satin. That poor Célestine!"
"Mrs. Church may be exacting," I said, "but she is a clever little woman."