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I did not calculate sufficiently on the chances of Alain's head being turned. Hear my excuse.
"O, don't you be took in, Mr. Anne," quoth the faithless Rowley: "he has to be hyked into a pair of stays to get them things on!" "Come, come, Mr. Rowley," said I, "this is telling tales out of school! Do not you be deceived. The greatest men of antiquity, including Cæsar and Hannibal and Pope Joan, may have been very glad, at my time of life or Alain's, to follow his example.
"His all? Tut, with such an estate as Rochebriant!" For the first time in that talk Alain's countenance became overcast. "And how long will Rochebriant be mine? You know that I hold it at the mercy of the mortgagee, whose interest has not been paid, and who could if, he so pleased, issue notice, take proceedings that " "Peste!" interrupted de Finisterre; "Louvier take proceedings!
Yes, I did find in my heart, that exhausted heart which cannot weep, just as my withered body cannot sweat, I did find a last drop of the elixir which makes us fancy in our youth that all human beings are noble, and I came to offer you my hand; I came to bring you that celestial flower of belief in good " "Monsieur Bernard," said Godefroid, remembering the kind old Alain's lessons.
'Oh, don't you be took in, Mr. Anne, quoth the faithless Rowley: 'he has to be hyked into a pair of stays to get them things on! 'Come, come, Mr. Rowley, said I, 'this is telling tales out of school! Do not you be deceived. The greatest men of antiquity, including Caesar and Hannibal and Pope Joan, may have been very glad, at my time of life or Alain's, to follow his example.
I did not calculate sufficiently on the chances of Alain's head being turned. Hear my excuse.
Alain felt himself more and more behind his generation. The acute reasoning of Lemercier humbled his amour propre. At college Lemercier was never considered Alain's equal in ability or book-learning. What a stride beyond his school-fellow had Lemercier now made!
I answer for your liking her almost as much as she will like you." Before Alain could answer dinner was announced. Alain's place at dinner was between his cousins. How pleasant they made themselves! It was the first time in which Alain had been brought into such familiar conversation with countrymen of his own rank as well as his own age. His heart warmed to them.
"Come at least whenever you want a sincere if a rude friend;" and though he did not kiss his cousin's cheek this time, he gave him, with more sincerity, a parting shake of the hand. And these made the principal events in Alain's Paris life till he met Frederic Lemercier.
Remembering Monsieur Alain's injunction to parsimony in his personal expenses, Godefroid dined for twenty-five sous in the rue de Tournon, and was rewarded for his abnegation by finding himself in the midst of compositors and pressmen.
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