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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Look here, Adolphe," says the mother-in-law, after having waited to be left alone with her son, "would you prefer to have my daughter magnificently dressed, to have everything go on smoothly, without its costing you anything?" Imagine, if you can, the expression of Adolphe's physiognomy, as he hears this declaration of woman's rights!
This repetition of the subject involves a rule of conduct very much in use with the doctors of Paris. A certain husband was in our Adolphe's situation. His Caroline, having once made a signal failure, was determined to conquer, for Caroline often does conquer! She would not go to the theatre, oh, the disgusting atmosphere! the lights, above all, the lights!
Here Adolphe or any other man in Adolphe's place resembles a certain Languedocian peasant who suffered agonies from an agacin, or, in French, corn, but the term in Lanquedoc is so much prettier, don't you think so? This peasant drove his foot at each step two inches into the sharpest stones along the roadside, saying to the agacin, "Devil take you! Make me suffer again, will you?"
I gave him an anisette and tried to find out what his trouble was. I did find it out, and I found out a good deal more besides. "Thanks to his good fortune as a gambler, Virginie came to look upon him with favor. Pierre was quite out of the race and Adolphe's affection was reciprocated as much as his heart could desire.
She did not wish to see Madame Adolphe's astonishment. Surely Madame Adolphe could not have forgotten the assurance with which the professor's wife had placed him in imagination at Madame Vernet's table. "My dear child, I do not know," said the professor in a repentant tone. "Then you have not dined," said Madame Marmus, whose attitude remained that of the purest innocence.
"What is there so seductive in the mind or the manners of the spider?" "Why, Caroline " "Oh, don't undertake to deny your eccentric taste," she returns, checking a negation on Adolphe's lips. Very well! go on; you will soon see the difference." Do you understand?
But poor Adolphe's brow was clouded. Yes, poor Adolphe! for he was poor in spirit, he had pledged himself to give up Marie, and to accept the liberal allowance which his mother tendered him; but it remained for him now to communicate these tidings to Marie herself.
"I really hope I have, too!" says your wife. "You can marry Caroline," says Adolphe's mother to your future son-in-law; "Caroline will be the sole heiress of her mother, of her uncle, and her grandfather." As to yourself.
Caroline is terrified by this remark which reveals Adolphe's profound rascality. "He supposed, sir, that you would have pity upon the mother of a family, upon her children " "Ta, ta, ta," returns the syndic. "You have come to influence my independence, my conscience, you want me to give the creditors up to you: well, I'll do more, I give you up my heart, my fortune!
"The getting them on board the Trois Freres was, you must remember, my sister's work. I had failed and was in despair. Suspicions were already aroused, and we should assuredly have been arrested if it had not been that she had won the heart of Adolphe's wife by nursing her child in its illness."
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