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If you are going to your fine ladies' houses, you shall eclipse that monster of a de Marsay and young Rastignac and any Ajuda-Pinto or Maxime de Trailles or Vandenesse of them all. Remember that your mistress is Coralie! But you will not play me any tricks, eh?"
"I don't deny that your course is a prudent one, and I don't say that in your place I should not do the same thing." "Adieu, Maxime; without bitterness, I hope," said Rastignac to Monsieur de Trailles, who bowed coldly and with dignity. When the two conspirators were alone in the antechamber, Maxime turned to his companion. "Do you understand such squeamishness?" he asked.
This inquiry made, was it not to be feared that the thirty years' stormy biography of a roue would seem to the cautious old man a poor security for the future? However, the species of governmental mission with which Monsieur de Trailles appeared in Arcis might seem to be an offset and even a condonation that would neutralize the effect of such disclosures.
'Anastasie, he said, 'I will bury this in silence; there shall be no separation; there are the children. I will not kill M. de Trailles. I might miss him if we fought, and as for other ways of getting rid of him, I should come into collision with the law. If I killed him in your arms, it would bring dishonor on those children.
"Oh, yes!" said Maxime, bitterly, "I'm a sort of free lance." "Not at all; you are a man intuitively convinced of facts impossible to prove legally, and you do not give way before the judgment of God or man." Monsieur de Trailles rose angrily. Vinet rose also, and, shaking hands with Rastignac as he took leave of him, he said,
"I expect to find out the real weight of the man before long," replied Rastignac, "from a source I have more confidence in than I have in Monsieur de Trailles. On this very occasion he has allowed himself to be tripped up, and now wants to compensate by heroic measures for his own lack of ability.
Approaching the fifties, like his friend de Trailles, Colonel Franchessini had still some pretensions to the after-glow of youth, which his slim figure and agile military bearing seemed likely to preserve to him for some time longer.
As the price of my efforts you must do me the honor to receive in your house and seriously protect Madame la Comtesse de Trailles." "What! are you married?" cried d'Ajuda. "I shall be married within a fortnight to the heiress of a rich but extremely bourgeois family, a sacrifice to opinion! I imbibe the very spirit of my government, and start upon a new career.
We even know what you, madame, seem not to know, that this able ministerial agent has found means to combine with the cares of electoral politics those of his own private policy. Monsieur Maxime de Trailles, if we are rightly informed, was on the point of succumbing to the chronic malady with which he has been so long afflicted; I mean debt.
What is it, Nasie? Be quick and tell me, this is enough to " "Well, then, my husband knows everything," said the Countess. "Just imagine it; do you remember, father, that bill of Maxime's some time ago? Well, that was not the first. I had paid ever so many before that. About the beginning of January M. de Trailles seemed very much troubled.
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