At its farther end she was to meet Professor
Grandet, who lived there in a professional boarding-house of intense
respectability and learning, from whence he was to accompany her to the
museum, a programme which had been arranged with Sara by himself and
madame, when they had called Saturday evening.
She found him awaiting her in the doorway, beside his wife, who greeted
her with a cheery word, and bade her, laughingly, have no fear, for she
knew all about professors, and really, in most things, they were no
wiser than common people! Then, laughing mischievously in her husband's
face, she gave him a little push down the steps, which came near
upsetting both his balance and his dignity. But before he could turn to
remonstrate she was volubly bidding him not to go off into a brown study
over some plesiosaurus, and forget all about his charge, or make a
mistake and introduce her to the dinotherium, instead of Professor
Macon; then, gayly waving her hand, she vanished behind the closing
door.
"She has ze spirits zat are high--she!" he said with a smile, for
everything this bonny wife did seemed good to him. "It is ze best sing
zat it ees thus, for she ees much alone--_la pauvre petite!_ Now, I
must zis sing say to you, Mees Sara; it will not be allowed zat you keep
zat mos' fine colleczione while ze college have you in employ--zat ees
contraire to ze rule.
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