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We should not talk like this if it were a question of some outsider, some inconvenient person who had made a name for himself without us and was not wanted; but Nathan is one of us. Blondet got some one to attack him in the Mercure for the pleasure of replying in the Debats. For which reason the first edition went off at once."
"A crown for Couture!" said Blondet, twisting a serviette into a wreath for his head. "I go further than that, gentlemen. If there is a defect in the working hypothesis, what is the cause? The law! the whole system of legislation. The blame rests with the legislature.
He may seem captious, wrong-headed, inconsequent, vacillating, and without any fixed opinions; but let something serious turn up, some combination to scheme out, he will not scatter himself like Blondet here, who chooses these occasions to look at things from his neighbor's point of view.
This fatal comradeship explains the reticence of the last words of Charles the groom, as he and Blondet reached the portico of the chateau. "Ha! by my pipe, papa!" exclaimed Tonsard, seeing his father-in-law as the old man entered and supposing him in quest of food, "your stomach is lively this morning! We haven't anything to give you.
"There is nothing more terrible than the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay. "It would be frightful to let us leave with this horrible picture in our memory," said Madame de Montcornet. "I shall dream of it " "And what was the punishment of Monsieur de Marsay's 'First'?" said Lord Dudley, smiling. "When the English are in jest, their foils have the buttons on," said Blondet.
Emile Blondet, though himself a past-master of hoaxing, could not keep his cheeks from blushing like those of a virgin who hears an indecorous story of which she knows the meaning. "Ha! ha! so you have hunted the otter this morning with Pere Fourchon?" cried the general, with a roar of laughter. "What is it?" asked the countess, uneasy at her husband's laugh.
He had a fancy to be a doctor, and was studying for the medical profession when he became entangled with a woman. Mademoiselle Adele Blondet was a charmingly ugly actress, who was at that time the rage of Paris. She attracted all the men, not by her looks, but by her tongue. Octave Braulard, went on M. Vandeloup, complacently looking at himself, 'was handsome, and she fell in love with him.
Lucien, you enjoy the esteem of the press of which you were a distinguished ornament, and we will give you our support. Finot, a paragraph in the 'latest items'! Blondet, a little butter on the fourth page of your paper!
Rastignac, who might have fought at need, like Jarnac, went over to the opinion of Henri II. on the strength of his great maxim, 'There is no such thing as absolute right; there are only circumstances. This brings us to the history of his fortune." "You might just as well make a start with your story instead of drawing us on to traduce ourselves," said Blondet with urbane good humor.
The Blandureaus were well-to-do linen manufacturers, with an only daughter, and it was on this daughter that the President had fixed his choice of a wife for Fabien. Now, Joseph Blondet's marriage with Mlle. Blandureau depended on his nomination to the post which his father, old Blondet, hoped to obtain for him when he himself should retire.
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