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"The captain is quite right," Roquetton the notary opined; "Madame Rulhiére, the lawful Madame Rulhiére, is much more amiable, and altogether nicer. You are a scoundrel to deceive her; but when may we hope to see her?" And with a paternal grimace, he added: "But do not be uneasy; we will all hold our tongue; it would be too sad if she were to find it out."
Captain Mouredus looked at the fire, with the fixed gaze of a somnambulist, Marius Barbaste scratched his fingers mechanically, while the three others, the factory manager, Casemajel, Roquetton, the lawyer, and Dustugue, the hotel proprietor, looked at Rulhière anxiously. The lawyer was the first to recover himself.
"We are not boobies, and that fellow Roquetton is the most knowing of the lot of us.... Ah! Monsieur Rulhière, without any exaggeration, you are the cream of good fellows." And with a flushed face, and expanding his chest, he said sonorously: "They certainly turn them out very pretty in your part of the country, my little lady!"
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