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Do you know that I actually found that she had not yet discovered your absence from the house : she thought you safe in the great dormitory . With what care you must have been waited on ! '' `` Oh ! all that is very conceivable , '' said I. `` Goton could do nothing for me but bring me a little tisane and a crust of bread , and I had rejected both so often during the past week , that the good woman got tired of useless journeys from the dwelling-house kitchen to the school-dormitory , and only came once a day at noon to make my bed . I believe , however , that she is a good-natured creature , and would have been delighted to cook me côtelettes de mouton , if I could have eaten them . '' `` What did Madame Beck mean by leaving you alone ? '' `` Madame Beck could not foresee that I should fall ill . ''