Her grandmère cried “O nom de nom!”
He said “She’s pretty but beaucoup dumb!”
O sacré nom de nom de nom
de nom de nom de nom de nom!—
La, mademoiselle’s too dumb to come!
Sacré nom de nom de nom de nom
de nom de nom de nom!
Indeed, my bunkmate was so busy learning additions to his repertoire that he really couldn’t have much time left to get suspicious of me.... He was mumbling that “nom de nom” thing even after he got in bed, and I think he must have sung himself to sleep: at least he was still crooning it when I dropped off to keep my date with Morpheus.
—4—
A few nights later we had a close call. It was such a close call that I had the shivers. That dumb-bell Ben comes tramping into the Captain’s, opening the door even as he knocked, and for about five seconds I was paralyzed, for I didn’t have enough time to think, let alone extricate myself from Clark’s arms.