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If you can persuade that little Mirouet, who possesses in her own right forty thousand francs, to marry you, I will give you, as true as my name is Minoret, the means to buy a notary's practice at Orleans." "No," said Goupil, "that's too far out of the way; but Montargis " "No," said Minoret; "Sens." "Very good, Sens," replied the hideous clerk.
Desire exhorted his father, in case this persecution should be the work of any of their friends, to give to whoever it might be warning and good advice; for even if the law could not punish this crime it would certainly discover the truth and hold it over the delinquent's head. Minoret had now attained a great object.
The bustle attending the settlement of an estate, the sale of the property, the going and coming necessitated by such unusual business, his discussions with his wife about the most trifling details, the purchase of the doctor's house, where Zelie wished to live in bourgeois style to advance her son's interests, all this hurly-burly, contrasting with his usually tranquil life hindered the huge Minoret from thinking of his victim.
"Pooh!" said Bouvard. "But I am!" cried the other. "It is not your money but your convictions that I want. Come," replied Bouvard. "Oh! you obstinate fellow!" said Minoret. The Mesmerist led his sceptic, with some precaution, up a dingy staircase to the fourth floor.
"We want to get rid of the nobles in Nemours." "I did hear the old lady say that if she could settle her affairs she should go and live in Brittany, as she would not have means enough left to live her. She is thinking of selling her house." "Well, sell it to me," said Minoret. "To you?" said Zelie. "You talk as if you were master of everything. What do you want with two houses in Nemours?"
She rang the bell violently and called to the servants. "Remember what I have said to you," repeated Savinien to Minoret, paying no attention to Zelie's tirade. Suspending the sword of Damocles over their heads, he left the room. "Now, then, Minoret," said Zelie, "you will explain to me what this all means.
You'll find him among the rocks; he spends all his time there, doing what, I'd like to know?" "You are greatly troubled, Monsieur Minoret," said the priest going up to him. "You belong to me because you suffer. Unhappily, I come to increase your pain. Ursula had a terrible dream last night. Your uncle lifted the stone from his grave and came forth to prophecy a great disaster in your family.
The apothecary Lelievre, a clever man, saw a stroke of business where Minoret had only seen a new preparation for the dispensary, and he loyally shared his profits with the doctor, who was a pupil of Rouelle in chemistry as well as of Bordeu in medicine. Less than that would make a man a materialist.
Your little Ursula, whom I do not know, is not our accomplice, and if she tells you that she has said and done what you have written down lower thy head, proud Hun!" The two friends returned to the house opposite to the Assumption and found the somnambulist, who in her waking state did not recognize Doctor Minoret.
When Ursula heard that Savinien would have to say at least a week longer in jail she begged her godfather to let her go there, if only once. Old Minoret refused. The uncle and niece were staying at a hotel in the Rue Croix des Petits-Champs where the doctor had taken a very suitable apartment.
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