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legitimate self-defence. She examined my rags with
the scrutinizing eye of the connoisseur, always on
the look-out for anything to patch, to darn or
to mend. I thought her voice sounded a little
kinder as she ordered me to hand her my whole
outfit at once. I slunk into my bedroom, had a
bath, Rosalie brought me my coffee, nobody could
make a cup of coffee like Mamsell Agata.
“Pauvre Monsieur,” said Rosalie as I handed
her my clothes to be taken to Mamsell Agata,
“I hope you are not hurt?”
“No,” said I, “I am only afraid.”
Rosalie and I had no secrets from one another
in what concerned Mamsell Agata, we both lived
in deadly fear of her, we were comrades in arms
in our daily defenceless battle for life. Rosalie,
whose real profession was that of a charwoman,
had come to my rescue the day the cook had
bolted, and now since the housemaid had also
cleared out she had remained with me as a sort of
bonne à tout faire. The cook I was very sorry to
lose but I soon had to admit that I had never
eaten a better dinner than since Mamsell Agata
had taken possession of the kitchen. The
departed housemaid, a sturdy Bretonne, had also
been much to my liking, she had always
scrupulously observed our agreement that she should
never go near my writing table and never touch
the antique furniture. A week after Mamsell
Agata’s arrival she had shown signs of declining
health, her hands had begun to tremble, she had
dropped my finest old Faenza vase, and soon after
she had fled in such a hurry that she had even
forgotten to take her aprons with her. The very day
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