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After one or two sharp turns, we emerged upon a sort of plateau or terrace high above the sea, and in full view of it. "There was a small hotel in front of it, and above the door was the name of the proprietor, would you believe it, Domenico Bruel! "It was the name of Susan's husband, and no doubt Susan was there. I could not quite make up my mind how I should act.
"Du Bruel always seemed to be attached to Monsieur Rabourdin." Bixiou. "Ha, gentlemen! strange things are going on in your bureau. Du Bruel! Thuillier. "Full speed." Bixiou. "What about Rabourdin?" Fleury. "Distilled, evaporated, melted! Such a man, the king of men, that he " Dutocq. "Where's the little viper who copied it?" Bixiou. "Copied it? How did you know he copied it? Poiret.
Finot, Lousteau, du Tillet, Desroches, Bixiou, Blondet, Couture, and des Lupeaulx tolerated him in spite of his pedantic manner and ponderous official attitude. But once married, Tullia made a slave of du Bruel. There was no help for it. He was in love with Tullia, poor devil.
Whenever she acts, she is always swayed by one dominant passion; and wonderful it is to see how she makes that passion the very centre of her world. "Tullia was irresistible; she twisted du Bruel round her fingers, the sky grew blue again, the evening was glorious. And ingenious writer of plays as he is, he never so much as saw that his wife had buried a trouble out of sight.
I did think there was nobody but Poiret who could show the like after that after ten years' public exposure to the inclemencies of Parisian weather." "Baudoyer is magnificent," said du Bruel. "Dazzling," answered Bixiou. "Gentlemen," said Baudoyer, "let me present you to my own uncle, Monsieur Mitral, and to my great-uncle through my wife, Monsieur Bidault."
"Yes," said Camusot, "something put her out at the beginning; but from the middle of the second act to the very end, she was enough to drive you wild with admiration. Half of the success of your play was due to her." "And half of her success is due to me," said du Bruel. "This is all much ado about nothing," said Coralie in an unfamiliar voice.
Not you, certainly, for you will be made under-head-clerk and du Bruel head of the bureau. Monsieur Baudoyer gets the division." Fleury. "I'll bet a hundred francs that Baudoyer will never be head of the division." Vimeux. "I'll join in the bet; will you, Monsieur Poiret?" Poiret. "I retire in January." Bixiou. "Is it possible? are we to lose the sight of those shoe-ties?
Is the peculiar flavour of the cheese due to this non-drinking habit? We see rye, oats, clover, and hay in abundance, with corn ready for garnering. Passing St. Jean de Bruel, where all the inhabitants have turned out to attend a neighbour's funeral, we wind down amid chestnut woods and pastures into a lovely little valley, with the river Dourbie, bluest of the blue, gliding through the midst.
"Stop to supper, there is a dear, or I will crush thee, butterfly as thou art. There will be no professional jealousies, as you are a dancer; and as to beauty, you have all of you too much sense to show jealousy in public." "Oh dear!" cried Finot, "Nathan, Blondet, du Bruel, help friends! I want five columns." "I can make two of the play," said Lucien. "I have enough for one," added Lousteau.
"Look here, all of you, you must use all your wit before those fifty-six bottles of wine drive it out. And, of all things, stir up du Bruel; he is a vaudevillist, he is capable of making bad jokes if you get him to concert pitch."