At this moment Nanon appeared with the warming pan.
"Here's something more!" said Monsieur Grandet. "Do you take my nephewfor a lying-in woman? Carry off your brazier, Nanon!"
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"Well, go on, as you've taken it into your head," said Grandet,pushing her by the shoulders; "but don't set things on fire." Sosaying, the miser went down-stairs, grumbling indistinct sentences.Charles stood aghast in the midst of his trunks. After casting hiseyes on the attic-walls covered with that yellow paper sprinkled withbouquets so well known in dance-houses, on the fireplace of ribbedstone whose very look was chilling, on the chairs of yellow wood withvarnished cane seats that seemed to have more than the usual fourangles, on the open night-table capacious enough to hold a smallsergeant-at-arms, on the meagre bit of rag-carpet beside the bed, onthe tester whose cloth valance shook as if, devoured by moths, it wasabout to fall, he turned gravely to la Grande Nanon and said,,"Look here! my dear woman, just tell me, am I in the house of MonsieurGrandet, formerly mayor of Saumur, and brother to Monsieur Grandet ofParis?"
"Yes, monsieur; and a very good, a very kind, a very perfectgentleman. Shall I help you to unpack your trunks?"