CHAPTER XXXV. THE ITALIAN PEDLAR 



This caitiff monk for gold did swear, That by his drugs my rival fair A saint in heaven should be.--SCOTT 

A grand cavalcade bore the house of Quinet from Montauban--coaches, wagons, outriders, gendarmes--it was a perfect court progress, and so low and cumbrous that it was a whole week in reaching a grand old castle standing on a hill-side among chestnut woods, with an avenue a mile long leading up to it; and battlemented towers fit to stand a siege. 

Eustacie was ranked among the Duchess's gentlewomen. She was so far acknowledged as a lady of birth, that she was usually called Madame Esperance; and though no one was supposed to doubt her being Theodore Gardon's widow, she was regarded as being a person of rank who had made a misalliance by marrying him. This Madame de Quinet had allowed the household to infer, thinking that the whole bearing of her guest was too unlike that of a Paris _bourgeoise_ not to excite suspicion, but she deemed it wiser to refrain from treating her with either intimacy or distinction that might excite jealousy or suspicion. Even as it was, the consciousness of a secret, or the remnants of Montauban gossip, prevented any familiarity between Eustacie and the good ladies who surrounded her; they were very civil to each other, but their only connecting link was the delight that every one took in petting pretty little Rayonette, and the wonder that was made of her signs of intelligence and attempts at talking. Even when she toddled fearlessly up to the stately Duchess on her canopied throne, and held out her entreating hands, and lisped the word '_nontre_,' Madame would pause in her avocations, take her on her knee, and display that wonderful gold and enamel creature which cried tic-tic, and still remained an unapproachable mystery to M. le Marquis and M. le Vicomte, her grandsons.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who is the quote from?
2. Who is cited?
3. Whose citation does the chapter include?
Q2:
1. Was something said with a lisp?
2. Was something mouthed?
3. Did something get spoken in a lisped way?
Q3:
1. What was lisped?
2. What was said with a lisp?
3. 
Q4:
1. What arrived at the house?
2. What approached the house?
3. Which vehicles arrived at the home?
Q5:
1. Where were the vehicles going?
2. What was the destination of the vehicles?
3. Where were all the vehicles headed?
Q6:
1. Where did the vehicles come from?
2. Where had the vehicles arrived from?
3. What was the provenance of the vehicles?
Q7:
1. What was the length of the journey?
2. How much time did the journey take?
3. How much time was needed to get from Montauban to the castle?
Q8:
1. Was the journey easy?
2. Was it easy to get from Montauban to the castle?
3. Was it simple to get from Montauban to the castle?
Q9:
1. Who lost their husband?
2. Whose husband passed away?
3. Who was a widow?
Q10:
1. Who had passed away?
2. Whose widow was Madame Esperance?
3. What was the name of the husband that Madame Esperance had lost?
