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This state of things lasted several months without a word having been exchanged between them; in due time they learned each other's names and professions. She was a professor of drawing, as he supposed, the daughter of an artist who had been dead several years, and was called Mademoiselle Phillis Cormier.
"Well, if I had the money necessary for the voyage, I would go and pass the end of the winter in a country where it would be less disagreeable than here, and, above all, less dangerous for my constitution." "You do not say that seriously, I hope?" cried Madame Cormier. "On the contrary, very seriously." "We are hardly reunited, and you think of a separation," she said, sadly.
It is there that I saw them yesterday morning when I went out, and I was petrified, red with shame, distracted, not knowing where to hide myself. 'Florentin Cormier, the assassin of the Rue Sainte-Anne. Is it not infamous that an innocent person should be thus dishonored? This was what I said to myself. Where did the paper get the photograph?
Timidly, Madame Cormier repeated her invitation, but he did not accept it, in spite of the tender glance that Phillis gave him. Would he be able to resist the pressure which from all sides at once pushed him toward the Rue Sainte Anne?
Madame Cormier came from the kitchen in time to hear these few words, and if Florentin had not motioned to her to be silent, she would have betrayed herself. The words on her lips were: "You came to arrest my son!" They would have escaped her, but she crushed them back. "And can you tell me for what affair the judge summons me?" Florentin asked, steadying his voice. "For the Caffie affair."
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"And it is this honest boy that they accuse of assassination!" cried Madame Cormier, beginning to weep. It required several minutes for Phillis to quiet her a little. "We must think of him, mamma; we must not give up." "You are going to do something, are you not, my little Phillis?" "I am going to find Doctor Saniel." "He is a doctor, not a lawyer."
"And at what hour should I present myself before the judge?" "Immediately." "But my son has not breakfasted!" Madame Cormier exclaimed. "At least, take something before going, my dear child." "It is not worth while." He made a sign to her that she should not insist. His throat was too tight to swallow a piece of bread, and it was important that he should not betray his emotion before this agent.
Ordinarily he was tender and affectionate to his mother-in-law, with attention and deference which in some ways seemed affected, as if he were so by will rather than by natural sentiment; but at these times he forgot this tenderness, and treated her with hardness so unjust, that more than once Madame Cormier spoke of it to her daughter.
Also, when the chamber of the prosecution sent Florent to the assizes, the emotion of Madame Cormier and Phillis would not be too violent. Madame Dammauville would be in a state to make her deposition, since the evening before she had been able to leave her bed; and although she left it for only an hour, and then to go from her bedroom to her parlor, that was enough.
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