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All the party gazed in amazement at the whimsical apparitions, to the great indignation of Cocardasse, who whispered angrily to his companion: "Why the devil do they stare at us so?" While to him his companion replied, soothingly: "Gently, gently." The gentlemen were screaming with laughter. Taranne fired a volley of peas, which rattled harmlessly against the long boots of Passepoil.
Triomphe! I have got my mention, and the picture they skied is to be brought down to the line, and Taranne says I have done better than any other pupil of his of the same standing that I have an extraordinary gift that I must succeed, all the world says so and two other members of the jury send me their compliments. Ah! Monsieur David' in a tone of reproach 'be kind be nice congratulate me.
Taranne answered him, with a voice as grave as an oracle: "All the sentinels are doubled, and there are two companies of soldiers in the great court." Navailles protested: "You are joking!" Taranne was not to be put down. "Never more serious. Every one who enters is scrutinized most carefully." "That is easy to explain," said Chavernay; "it is just to make sure that they really are invited."
Camille had given him a young girl, for whose keep she paid, who lived with Tour d'Auvergne in furnished apartments in the Rue de Taranne, and whom he said he loved as one loves a portrait, because she came from Camille. The count often took her with him to Camille's to supper. She was fifteen, simple in her manners, and quite devoid of ambition.
'Taranne will have to put his foot down. There are one or two demons among them; one should make them know their place. Lenain threw back his head and laughed a great, frank laugh, which broke up the ordinary discontent of the face agreeably. The speaker, M. Alphonse Duchatel, had been already turned out of two ateliers for a series of the most atrocious charges on record.
"I dare say they are no worse than most of your friends." Taranne, Nocé, Navailles, Oriol, Albret, Choisy, Gironne, and Montaubert caught him up angrily. They seemed offended at the suggestion. Gonzague placated them with a phrase: "Our dear Chavernay includes himself, no doubt." Chavernay accepted the suggestion. "Oh yes; there is devilishly little to choose between any of us."
'An hour it is, at the most, half an hour's walk. 'Ah, mon Dieu! she cried, clasping her hands. 'It is all over, the vote is given. Perhaps Taranne is writing to me now, at this moment! 'Read read! and forget it half an hour more.
Blanche and Camille left the house, and it did not take them five minutes to reach the Rue Taranne. There was one fiacre on the stand one only. They entered it and it drove away. This circumstance drew from Martial an oath worthy of his costume. Then he reflected that, since he knew where to find his wife, a slight delay in finding a carriage did not matter.
"It is Mademoiselle de Clermont, who is looking for me." Taranne pooh-poohed him. "Nonsense. It is Madame de Tessy, who is looking for me." "It might be Mademoiselle Nivelle, looking for me," Oriol suggested, fatuously. Choisy, Gironne, Albret, Montaubert each in turn offered a possible name for the unknown. Chavernay would have none of their suggestions. "No, no. That is not any one we know.
He beckoned to Rateau, and the two men went out of the room without another word. The whole of that night Esther remained shut up in her apartment in the Petite Rue Taranne. All night she heard the measured tramp, the movements, the laughter and loud talking of men outside her door. Once or twice she tried to listen to what they said.
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