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The Prince de Talmont is with us, M. Fleuriot, and M. d'Autachamps, every gentleman of standing in the country will help the good cause; my friend here, Adolphe Denot, will fight for us to the last drop of his blood." Cathelineau bowed graciously, as he was in this way introduced by Larochejaquelin to his friend.
At the close of the first part of the book a book filled with serious pleasantry Adolphe has reached, as you must have noticed, a point of complete indifference in matrimonial matters.
Do I ever tell you that you are growing fat, that you are getting the color of a stone-cutter, and that I prefer thin and pale men?" They say in London, "Don't touch the axe!" In France we ought to say, "Don't touch a woman's nose." "And all this about a little extra natural vermilion!" exclaims Adolphe.
They read aloud, one after the other, La Nouvelle Héloïse, Delphine, Adolphe, and Ourika. But the listener's yawns proved contagious, for the book slipped out of the reader's hand to the floor. They found fault with the last-mentioned works for making no reference to the environment, the period, the costume of the various personages.
Adolphe sits down, saying: "This has happened very appropriately, for I'm as hungry as two bears." Caroline sits down, too, and looks at Adolphe stealthily: she weeps internally: but she very soon asks, in a tone of voice that she manages to render indifferent, "Who was Ferdinand with?" "With some fellows who lead him into bad company. The young man is getting spoiled: he goes to Madame Schontz's.
Her eyes smile, her mouth is a pomegranate endowed with sensibility, with a sensibility which seems quite fresh. "So a country house would please you very much, would it, darling?" says Adolphe, clasping Caroline round the waist, and noticing that she leans upon him as if to show the flexibility of her form. "What, will you be such a love as to buy me one? But remember, no extravagance!
Marianne's gray eyes never leave him But she in her turn meets her master and Marianne's master is Adolphe Gochard, a horrid Parisian blackguard who is so much her master that, after all, the real hero of the romance is Adolphe Gochard. Such is the secret philosophy of this brilliant and ingenious romance. "I have, however, a little quarrel on my own account with Monsieur Jules Claretie.
"Perhaps it belongs to the party I took out the other day. A lot of jolly folk, gentlemen and ladies, with cakes, champagne, cornets everything in style! There was one especially, a tall handsome man with small moustaches, who was that funny! And they all kept saying, 'Now tell us something, Adolphe Dolpe, I think." She shivered. "You are in pain?" asked Leon, coming closer to her.
"True enough!" said the new arrival, who had overheard the concluding remark, "and if you have any doubts, Sir, I will show you my leg;" but Adolphe, thoroughly convinced, declined the offer, and retired to his room for the night.
"Good-by to the grapes, the vintage is done. It is all over with us. We may as well say adieu to Mademoiselle Grandet. Eugenie will belong to the dandy. Unless this cousin is enamoured of some Parisian woman, your son Adolphe will find another rival in " "Not at all, monsieur l'abbe. This young man cannot fail to see that Eugenie is a little fool, a girl without the least freshness.
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