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Having, to his great misfortune, lost his mother, and being under the protection of the minister, safe therefore from the tyrannies of Baudoyer, and received in all the ministerial salons, he was nevertheless detested by every one because of his impertinence and conceit.
Baudoyer proceeded to take a pen and wrote, without a blush, his own praises, precisely as Nathan or Canalis might have reviewed one of their own books. "'Madame la comtesse' Don't you see, mother?" said Saillard to his wife; "I am supposing you to be the minister's wife." "Do you take me for a fool?" she answered sharply. "I know that."
Now is the time for us to understand each other and push our way. What would you say to your being made head of the bureau, and I under you?" Dutocq. "If Baudoyer gets La Billardiere's place Rabourdin won't stay on where he is. Between ourselves, Baudoyer is so incapable that if du Bruel and you don't help him he will certainly be dismissed in a couple of months.
This, of course, brought down an avalanche of suppositions, flooded with the sapient arguments of the two officials, who sent back and forth to each other a wearisome flood of nonsense. Elisabeth quietly asked three questions: "If Monsieur des Lupeaulx is on our side, will Monsieur Baudoyer be appointed in Monsieur de la Billardiere's place?" "Heavens! I should think so," cried the cashier.
Saillard is rich and does not need a pension. "Baudoyer. Utterly incapable. To be thanked and dismissed. Rich; does not need a pension. "Godard. Should be dismissed; pension one-third of his present salary. "In short, here we all are. Great deal of capacity, little self-respect, no application, a restless spirit. Ha! I'll give you a touch of the artist, Monsieur Rabourdin!" Saillard.
Moreover, in addition to her mischances, she believed herself certain of success, never dreaming that Rabourdin was undermined in all directions by the secret sapping of the mollusks. "Well, Monseigneur," said des Lupeaulx, entering the little salon where they breakfasted, "have you seen the articles on Baudoyer?"
"Have the nerve to do this; make yourself a true politician; put ideas and generous impulses aside; attend only to your functions; don't say a word to your new director; don't help him with a suggestion; and do nothing yourself without his order. In three months Baudoyer will be out of the ministry, either dismissed, or stranded on some other administrative shore.
But you know perfectly well that nothing is more likely to strike the king's mind than just those reasons the opposition journal has chosen to put forth. Good heavens! fancy managing a ministry with such men as Baudoyer under me!" "An imbecile bigot," said des Lupeaulx, "and as utterly incapable as " " as La Billardiere," added the minister.
"You have given a monstrance to the church, that cost five thousand francs. I'll explain it all later." The miserly Baudoyer make a sulky grimace, and continued gloomy and cross for the rest of the day. "What did you busy yourself about Falleix's passport for? Why do you meddle in other people's affairs?" he presently asked her.
"Yesterday a ministerial journal plainly indicated as the probable successor of Monsieur le Baron de la Billardiere, Monsieur Baudoyer, one of the worthiest citizens of a populous quarter, where his benevolence is scarcely less known than the piety on which the ministerial organ laid so much stress. Why was that sheet silent as to his talents?
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