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She glanced at him: "What ails you?" He spoke as if tearing a secret from the depths of his heart: "I am I am jealous of him." She was astonished. "You?" "Yes, I." "Why?" "Because I love you and you know it" Then she said severely: "You are mad, Bel-Ami!" He replied: "I know that I am! Should I confess it I, a married man, to you, a young girl?
Walter and her two daughters seated like sentinels beside her, he turned to his former mistress. She extended her hand; he took and pressed it as if to say: "I love you still!" She returned the pressure. He said: "Have you been well since we last met?" "Yes; have you, Bel-Ami?" And turning to Madeleine she added: "Will you permit me to call him Bel-Ami?"
And longing, bitter longing possessed him, corrupting all his pleasure, rendering life odious. Suzanne said: "You must come often, Bel-Ami; we can do anything we like now papa is rich." He replied: "Oh, you will soon marry some prince, perhaps, and we shall never meet any more." She cried frankly: "Oh, oh, I shall not! I shall choose some one I love very dearly. I am rich enough for two."
She raised her large, soft eyes to his and insisted: "Come, stay with us Bel-Ami we need you!" He replied: "I obey with pleasure, Madame!" Suddenly Jacques Rival's voice announced: "We will begin, ladies." Then followed the fencing-match. Du Roy retained his place beside the ladies and gave them all the necessary information.
We know, too, that he passionately loved a strenuous physical life and long journeys, particularly long journeys upon the sea. He owned a little sailing yacht, named after one of his books, "Bel-Ami," in which he used to sojourn for weeks and months. These meager details are almost the only ones that have been gathered as food for the curiosity of the public.
Beginning with Flaubert in his "Madame Bovary," and passing through the whole line of their studies in morbid anatomy, as the "Germinie Lacerteux" of the Goncourts, as the "Bel-Ami" of Maupassant, and as all the books of Zola, you have portraits as veracious as those of the Russians, or those of Defoe, whom, indeed, more than any other master, Zola has made me think of in his frankness.
"I do not know, but one cannot mention you to her since your marriage; I really believe she is jealous." "Nonsense." "Yes, my dear, she no longer calls you Bel-Ami, but M. Forestier instead." Du Roy colored, then drawing nearer the young woman, he said: "Kiss me." She obeyed him. "Where can we meet again?" he asked. "At Rue de Constantinople." "Ah, are the apartments not rented?"
Walter pressed Georges to dine with them, but he refused, and returned home to look over his papers and destroy any compromising letters. Then he repaired in a cab with feverish haste to the place of meeting. He waited there some time, and thinking his ladylove had played him false, he was about to drive off, when a gentle voice whispered at the door of his cab: "Are you there, Bel-Ami?"
How frightened those men are, and how they love Him! Look at His head, His eyes, how simple and supernatural He is at the same time!" Suzanne cried: "Why, He looks like you, Bel-Ami! I am sure He looks like you. The resemblance is striking." She made him stand beside the painting and everyone recognized the likeness. Du Roy was embarrassed.
A ring caused them to start; they separated. She murmured: "It is Laurine." The child entered, paused in surprise, then ran toward Duroy clapping her hands, delighted to see him, and crying: "Ah, 'Bel-Ami!" Mme. de Marelle laughed. "Bel-Ami! Laurine has christened you. It is a pretty name. I shall call you Bel-Ami, too!" He took the child upon his knee.
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