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"I should like to say a word to you on this subject," said Bongrand, seizing the occasion to speak to his old friend of Ursula's future. The doctor put a black velvet cap on his white head, the justice of peace wore his hat to protect him from the night air, and they walked up and down the terrace discussing the means of securing to Ursula what her godfather intended to bequeath her.
But as if these words had led to some other ideas, he cooled down, and turned towards Claude to ask this question: 'By the way, have you seen Fagerolles' picture? 'Yes, said the young fellow, quietly. They both remained looking at each other: a restless smile had risen to their lips, and Bongrand eventually added: 'There's a fellow who pillages you right and left.
"Adieu, Monsieur," he said to the notary, "please leave us." He carried his child to an immense Louis XV. sofa which was in his study, looked for a phial of hartshorn among his remedies, and made her inhale it. "Take my place," said the doctor to Bongrand, who was terrified; "I must be alone with her."
A stiff classical bronze statue, a Minerva by a member of the Institute, had exasperated them at the very door. But as they hastened past a seemingly endless line of busts, they recognised Bongrand, who, all alone, was going slowly round a colossal, overflowing, recumbent figure, which had been placed in the middle of the path.
His boots were neat; his hair, carefully combed, was perfumed in short he was metamorphosed. "The fact is you are another man," said Bongrand. "Morally as well as physically. Virtue comes with practice a practice; besides, money is the source of cleanliness " "Morally as well as physically," returned Bongrand, settling his spectacles.
'No, we have just come in, said Claude. Thereupon Bongrand began to talk warmly about the Salon of the Rejected.
Monsieur Bongrand, who came in at this moment, was told of the step taken by Zelie, whose hatred to Ursula was well known to him. He looked at the abbe as if to say: "Come out, I want to speak to you of Ursula without her hearing me." "Savinien must be told that you refused eighty thousand francs a year and the dandy of Nemours," he said aloud. "Is it, then, a sacrifice?" she answered, laughing.
* Madame Sidonie, who figures in M. Zola's novel, 'La Curee. The male cousin, mentioned immediately afterwards, is Octave Mouret, the leading character of 'Pot-Bouille' and 'Au Bonheur des Dames. ED. As the procession was starting off, Bongrand came up, and, after shaking hands with Sandoz, remained beside him.
When the justice of the peace applied the seals to the effects of his old friend, they found in a small room, which the captain had allowed no one to enter, a quantity of toys, many of them broken, while all had been used, toys of a past generation, reverently preserved, which Monsieur Bongrand was, according to the captain's last wishes, to burn with his own hands.
'Requiescat in pace, said the priest. 'Amen, replied the choirboy. But the words were again lost amid the lashing, deafening detonation, which was prolonged with the continuous violence of a fusillade. Bongrand, quite exasperated, turned towards the engine. It became silent, fortunately, and every one felt relieved.
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