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She manages everything in the concern." "You are very fortunate," sighed Jansoulet. His melancholy was most eloquent touching Mademoiselle Afchin's deficiencies. After a pause the baron continued: "Marie has a bitter grudge against you, you know. She won't like it when she knows that we have been talking together."
Nor had that monkey of a Cardailhac stopped at that: detecting Mademoiselle Afchin's liking for the stage, he had succeeded in persuading her that she possessed an intuitive knowledge of all things pertaining to it, and had ended by asking her to cast a glance in her leisure moments, the glance of an expert, upon such pieces as he sent to her.
"Don't disturb yourselves," the good Nabob's wave of the hand would say, as he entered the room on tiptoe. He would listen and nod his head admiringly as he looked at his wife. "She's an astonishing creature," he would say to himself, for he knew nothing of literature, and in that direction at all events he recognized Mademoiselle Afchin's superiority.
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