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"Matteo," said the Sub-Prefect when this little transfer was accomplished, "your daughter is the most beautiful lady in all this city of Padua." "She is a choice thing, I own it," said the good Matteo; "and how dear to her old father your honour hath no notion." "I can very well imagine it," returned Messer Alessandro; "and, indeed, I remember that you are twenty ducats in hand."
For me, I am a Legitimist; then there is Durocher, my physician and friend, who is a rabid Republican; Hedouin, the tutor, is a parliamentarian; while Monsieur our sub-prefect is a devotee to the government, as it is his duty to be.
This good young man, rather heavy but full of capacity, the son of a physician in Provins, owed his place to Vinet's father, who was long a lawyer in Provins and still continued to be the patron of his people as the Comte de Gondreville was the patron of the people of Arcis. "What is that?" asked the sub-prefect.
Because upon the soil of uncentralized France men grew, while only functionaries germinate in the soil of centralized France." "God bless you, Monsieur!" said the Sub-prefect, with a smile.
It was the duty of the grand marshal to designate the place at which breakfast should be taken. We alighted sometimes at the archbishop's, sometimes at the hotel de ville, sometimes at the residence of the sub-prefect, or even at that of the mayor, in the absence of any other dignitaries.
Desire was playing whist with the wife of the procureur du roi, the wife of the sub-prefect, and the colonel of the regiment in garrison. "I come to bring you some good news," said Bongrand to Desire; "you love your cousin Ursula, and the marriage can be arranged." "I love Ursula Mirouet!" cried Desire, laughing. "Where did you get that idea?
"Unanimous, to-day," remarked Monsieur Martener. "Oh!" exclaimed Pigoult, "the general sentiment of the electors is for one of their own townsmen. Whom can you oppose to Simon Giguet, a man who has just spent two hours in explaining the word progress." "Take old Grevin!" cried the sub-prefect. "He has no such ambition," replied Pigoult. "But we must first of all consult the Comte de Gondreville.
That stupid riot in Paris, the incredible particulars of which we heard this morning by telegraph, came near causing us to lose the election. The sub-prefect instantly placarded all over the town the news of this attempt at insurrection no doubt instigated by the government to affect the elections.
"Well, what wood is the beam that has plumped into our bog made of?" said Olivier Vinet when Antonin Goulard rejoined them on leaving the Mulet. "He is a Comte Maxime who is here to study the geological system of Champagne, with a view to finding mineral waters," replied the sub-prefect, with an easy manner. "Say a speculator," said Oliver.
Not only that, but she obtained his appointment as sub-prefect of Sancerre with the promise of advancement to the prefecture. Some shrewd observers declared that the viscount pretended this passion for the purpose of being made prefect; for he well knew the hatred felt by the marquise for the name of Grevin.
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