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"Supper is ready," Paccard presently announced, in magnificent livery. Peyrade was placed at Florine's left hand, and on the other side of him Bixiou, whom Esther had enjoined to make the Englishman drink freely, and challenge him to beat him. Bixiou had the power of drinking an indefinite quantity.
'It is risky, said Sir Francis; 'nevertheless arrange to let me hear her. I told him that she was staying with her friend Madame de Saint-Esteve, at whose house I could take the liberty to invite him to dinner." "When?" asked Jacqueline. "To-day is the 19th; I said the 21st. Order the dinner from Chevet for fifteen persons, and send for your client Bixiou to make you out the list.
Would you hesitate between a Richelieu, a Mazarin, or a Potemkin, each with his hundreds of millions of francs, and a conscientious Robert Lindet that could make nothing out of assignats and national property, or one of the virtuous imbeciles who ruined Louis XVI.? Go on, Bixiou." "I will not go into the details of the speculation which we owe to Nucingen's financial genius.
"Well, when the ci-devant pearl's daughter put the state of the case before her, 'Oh my poor children, cried she, 'who will make my dresses now? I cannot afford new bonnets; I cannot see visitors here nor go out. Now by what token do you know that a man is in love?" said Bixiou, interrupting himself. "The question is, whether Beaudenord was genuinely in love with the fair-haired girl."
"There are poets and romancers and writers that say many fine things abut Parisian manners," continued Bixiou, "but that is what really happens at a funeral. Ninety-nine out of a hundred that come to pay their respects to some poor devil departed, get together and talk business or pleasure in the middle of the church.
"So women say," replied Bixiou. At half-past eleven o'clock, after the play, another citadine took the trio to the house of Mademoiselle Seraphine Sinet, better known under the name of Carabine, one of those pseudonyms which famous lorettes take, or which are given to them; a name which, in this instance, may have referred to the pigeons she had killed.
"Tell Monsieur Baudoyer that there must be no delay," he added, in the hearing of all the clerks; "my resignation is already in the minister's hands, and I do not wish to stay here longer than is necessary." Seeing Bixiou, Rabourdin went straight up to him, showed him the lithograph, and said, to the great astonishment of all present, "Was I not right in saying you were an artist?
Gazonal gave his hand to the actress, and led her to the citadine which was waiting for her; as he did so he pressed hers with such ardor that Jenny Cadine exclaimed, shaking her fingers: "Take care! I haven't any others." When the three friends got back into their own vehicle, Gazonal endeavoured to seize Bixiou round the waist, crying out: "She bites! You're a fine rascal!"
He stared stupidly round the table, then, completely exhausted by the effort, sank back into his chair, and mutely hung his head. "Would it not have been nice," the critic said to his neighbor, "to fight about a book I have neither read nor seen?" "Emile, look out for your coat; your neighbor is growing pale," said Bixiou. "Kant? Yet another ball flung out for fools to sport with, sir!
The most harmless of Bixiou's jokes perpetrated among the clerks was the one he played off upon Godard, presenting him with a butterfly just brought from China, which the worthy man keeps in his collection and exhibits to this day, blissfully unconscious that it is only painted paper. Bixiou had the patience to work up the little masterpiece for the sole purpose of hoaxing his superior.
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