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The writ of convocation will, probably, not take effect for a month to come. Between now and then, imagine the intrigues! Let us, rather, do as the Third Party is now doing in the Chamber, keep silence and vote!" "He speaks well," said Phellion to his neighbor Dutocq. "And how strong the statement is!" Envy had turned Minard and his son green and yellow.
"See how all things link together," remarked Phellion, "and how, from the summits of society, luxury infiltrates itself, sooner or later, through the lower classes, leading to the ruin of empires." "You are broaching there, my dear commander," said Minard, "one of the most knotty questions of political economy.
"I have three martyrs," said Chaudieu, whom the master's outburst had rendered thoughtful, "on whom we can rely. Stuart, who killed Minard, is at liberty " "You are mistaken," said Calvin, gently, smiling after the manner of great men who bring fair weather into their faces as though they were ashamed of the previous storm. "I know human nature; a man may kill one president, but not two."
The ten or a dozen names thus put forward were considered to express the will of the electors and were called "the voice of the quarter." Thus Thuillier's candidacy made from the start such rapid progress that Minard hesitated to put his own claims in opposition.
If I do you a service to-day you are in a position to return it to me to-morrow; therefore, in case I should be so fortunate as to do you a good turn, I am really only obeying the law of self-interest. Our friend Thuillier is in despair at being a nobody; he has taken it into his head that he wants to become a personage in this arrondissement " "Ah! ah!" exclaimed Minard.
In short, he intrigued in a dumb sort of way; but had never yet obtained a look in return from the king of his choice. The worthy man had more than once thought, but was not yet decided, to beg Monsieur Minard to assist him in obtaining his secret desire. Phellion, a man of passive obedience, was stoical in the matter of duty, and iron in all that touched his conscience.
"Cerizet said the right thing," thought la Peyrade, "a pompous imbecile!" The blow struck at Thuillier's candidacy was mortal, but Minard did not profit by it.
Everything shows that he had nothing to hope for from his judges; one of them, the President Minard, as he was returning from the palace on the evening of December 12, 1559, was killed by a pistol-shot; the assassin could not be discovered; but the crime, naturally ascribed to some friend of Dubourg, served only to make certain and to hasten the death of the prisoner on trial.
Zelie earned five hundred francs a year, Minard had fifteen hundred. Believing that they could live on two thousand, they married without settlements, and started with the utmost economy.
"I have been away from Paris for a day, and I don't even know what is in this morning's paper; and the office-boy is not here to give me a copy." "I have one," said Minard, pulling the much desired paper from his pocket. "If the article is not years you have certainly inspired it; in any case, the deed is done."
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