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"As for that, it seems to me that if you had written nothing the police would have found nothing to bite." "My dear Brigitte," said Thuillier, seeing la Peyrade shrug his shoulders, "your argument is vicious in the sense that the writing was not incriminating on any side. It is not la Peyrade's fault if persons of high station have organized a persecution against me.
In society, there is no barrier between them, and some barristers, those in la Peyrade's situation particularly, demean themselves by calling occasionally on attorneys, though even these cases are rare, and are usually excused by some special urgency. "I have come on important business," replied la Peyrade; "it concerns, especially, a question of delicacy which you and I ought to solve together.
We shall soon know exactly how near was the realization of la Peyrade's projects for the possession of Celeste's "dot"; let us merely say now that these projects in approaching maturity had inevitably become noised abroad; and as this condition of things pointed, of course, to the exclusion of Minard junior and also of Felix the professor, the prejudice hitherto manifested by Minard pere against old Phellion was transformed into an unequivocal disposition towards friendly cordiality; there is nothing that binds and soothes like the feeling of a checkmate shared in common.
I have told these ladies where I met you this morning." "Met me?" said Felix; "if I had the honor to meet you, madame, I did not see you." An almost imperceptible smile flickered on la Peyrade's lips.
Now become the humble servant of la Peyrade, he was forced to accept his conditions, which were as follows: five hundred francs a month for la Peyrade's services in general; his editorship of the paper to be paid at the rate of fifty francs a column, which was simply enormous, considering the small size of the sheet; a binding pledge to continue the publication of the paper for six months, under pain of the forfeiture of fifteen thousand francs; an absolute omnipotence in the duties of editor-in-chief, that is to say, the sovereign right of inserting, controlling, and rejecting all articles without being called to explain the reasons of his actions, such were the stipulations of a treaty in duplicate made openly, "in good faith," between the contracting parties.
I'm simply your bait; but you are giving me the best part of the catch, and I should be more infamous than a galley-slave who turns policeman if I didn't play fair." As soon as the door was closed, Cerizet peeped through the key-hole, trying to catch sight of la Peyrade's face.
She had been convinced of the truth of all la Peyrade's assertions.
"Ask for it for me; get the Comte de Gondreville to interest himself in the matter with some degree of warmth and you will thus repay me for the service I am about to do you. I ask your word only; for, if you fail me, sooner or later you will curse the day you were born you have Peyrade's word for that." "I gif you mein vort of honor to do vat is possible."
And, I tell you, only your bad sort know how to do such things but often has he given me ten francs to go and gamble with..." After this funeral oration, Peyrade's two avengers went back to Lydie's room, hearing Katt and the medical officer from the Mairie on the stairs. "Go and fetch the Chief of Police," said Corentin.
"That is what that Englishman has just remarked in English," said Theodore Gaillard, repeating Peyrade's remark to Madame du Val-Noble. Before making this speech in English, Peyrade had uttered a word or two in that language, which had made Theodore look up in a way that convinced him that the journalist understood English.
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