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If you've got any cause of complaint against Minoret, there's Minoret; take Minoret, fight Minoret! But do you think my boy, who, by your own account, knew nothing of all this, is going to bear the brunt of it? No, my little gentleman! somebody's teeth will pin your legs first!
"Who invented such nonsense?" he said, in a strangled voice, when the tale ended. "The dead man himself." This answer made Minoret tremble, for he himself had dreamed of the doctor. "God is very good, Monsieur l'abbe, to do miracles for me," he said, danger inspiring him to make the sole jest of his life. "All that God does is natural," replied the priest.
Minoret, caught in a lie by a man whom he feared, would have lost countenance if it had not been for a project in his head, which was, in fact, the reason why Goupil was invited to dinner, Minoret having remembered the proposition the clerk had once made to prevent the marriage between Savinien and Ursula. For all answer, he led Goupil hurriedly to the end of the garden.
Zelie found the official in his private office and was utterly annihilated when he addressed her as follows: "Madame," he said; "I do not believe you are an accomplice in a theft that has been committed upon the Minoret property, on the track of which the law is now proceeding.
In spite of all the precautions taken by the man who idolized her, Ursula unfortunately met the tumbril of victims among whom was Madame Roland, and the shock caused her death. Minoret, who in tenderness to his wife had refused her nothing, and had given her a life of luxury, found himself after her death almost a poor man. Robespierre gave him an appointment as surgeon-in-charge of a hospital.
The messenger who goes to Paris for the best surgeon will bring you this letter, which my son in the midst of his sufferings desires me to write so as to let you know our entire submission to your decisions in the matter about which he was coming to speak to me. I shall be grateful to you to my dying day for the manner in which you have acted, and I will deserve your goodness. Francois Minoret.
They found Ursula studying; she rose, with a cold and dignified air, as soon as she saw Minoret. "My child, Monsieur Minoret wants to speak to you on a matter of business," said Bongrand. "By the bye, don't forget to give me your certificates; I shall go to Paris in the morning and will draw your dividend and La Bougival's."
Stung like a lion by a gadfly the old scientist rushed to Paris and left his card on Bouvard, who lived in the Rue Ferou near Saint-Sulpice. Bouvard sent a card to his hotel on which was written "To-morrow; nine o'clock, Rue Saint-Honore, opposite the Assumption." Minoret, who seemed to have renewed his youth, could not sleep.
The courier who brought the announcement of the death did not arrive till thirty hours later." "Jesuit!" exclaimed old Minoret, laughing, "I did not ask you for proofs; I asked you if you believed in apparitions." "I think an apparition depends a good deal on who sees it," said the abbe, still fencing with his sceptic. "My friend," said the doctor, seriously, "I am not setting a trap for you.
Zelie's pupils dilated; she stood for a moment yellow with anger, then, crying out, "I'll see it before I believe it!" she rushed into the church. The service had reached the Elevation. The stillness of the worshippers enabled her to look along each row of chairs and benches as she went up the aisle beside the chapels to Ursula's place, where she saw old Minoret standing with bared head.
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