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Mme. la Duchesse has authority from the Keeper of the Seals; he will ratify any promises that she makes to us " "My cactus is all right!" exclaimed Blondet, peering at his precious plant. "Go on, I am listening." "Take counsel with Camusot and Michu to hush up the affair as soon as possible, and your son will get the appointment.
"Nathan," they said, "has the shoulders of an Atlas; he'll pull himself through; all will come right." "There were two new subscribers yesterday," said Blondet, gravely. "Raoul will certainly be elected deputy. As soon as the budget is voted the dissolution is sure to take place."
"No," said the general; "but come to the point or I shall think you are making fun of me." "Do you see those trees with dead leaves?" "Yes." "Do you see those others that are wilting?" "Yes." "Well, every one of them has been killed by the peasants you think you have won over by your benefits." And Blondet related the events of the morning. The general was so pale that Blondet was frightened.
"The handsome Dutch woman would have swallowed up the income of the Archbishop of Toledo; she ate two notaries out of house and home " "And kept Maxime de Trailles when he was a court page," said Bixiou. "La Torpille is too dear, as Raphael was, or Careme, or Taglioni, or Lawrence, or Boule, or any artist of genius is too dear," said Blondet.
"My dear fellow," said Blondet, "you are raving. I'll grant it was a pretty flower, but it wasn't a bit ideal, and instead of singing like a blind man before an empty niche, you had much better wash your hands and make submission to the powers. You are too much of an artist ever to be a good politician; you have been fooled by men of not one-half your value.
"Before you go down to the court," added Mme. Camusot, "ask Chesnel's successor about those proposals that he made in the name of M. and Mme. du Ronceret." Old Blondet, quite overcome by this revelation of the President's duplicity, stood planted on his feet by the wicket gate, looking after the two women as they hurried away through by-streets home again.
"I will be even with you for that, Blondet," returned Bixiou in a significant tone. "If the little Baroness was giddy, careless, selfish, and incapable in practical matters, she was not accountable for her sins; the responsibility is divided between the firm of Adolphus and Company of Manheim and Baron d'Aldrigger with his blind love for his wife.
For several months past d'Arthez had been subjected to the jests and satire of Blondet and Rastignac, who reproached him with knowing neither the world nor women.
"A German? They are the ones to drink, and they listen too; he shall hear some astonishing things to send home to his Government," cried Blondet. "Is there any sufficiently serious personage to go down to speak to him?" asked Finot. "Here, du Bruel, you are an official; bring up the Duc de Rhetore and the Minister, and give your arm to Tullia. Dear me! Tullia, how handsome you are to-night!"
He once said in my hearing that Bonaparte had blundered like a bourgeois in his early relations with Josephine; and that after he had had the spirit to use her as a stepping-stone, he had made himself ridiculous by trying to make a companion of her." "Any man of unusual powers is bound to take Oriental views of women," said Blondet.
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