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They went upstairs, and who should they see in the middle of Bouvard's room but Madame Bordin, looking about her right and left! "Excuse me," she said, with a forced laugh, "I have for the last hour been searching for your cook, whom I wanted for my preserves." They found her in the wood-house on a chair fast asleep. They shook her. She opened her eyes. "What is it now?
They were both disposed to give way. Bouvard ended by saying: "Good God! be it so, then." "Agreed," said Marescot. And then he mentioned the lender's name: it was Madame Bordin. "I suspected 'twas she!" exclaimed Pécuchet. Bouvard, who felt humiliated, had not a word to say. She or some one else what did it matter? The principal thing was to get out of their difficulties.
He asked an audience of the minister of foreign affairs to learn if salvation could be looked for through the influence of the great diplomat. He took Bordin with him, for the latter knew the minister and had done him some service.
Read this," and Schmucke's imprudent friend held out the summons delivered in the Cite Bordin. Standing in the notary's gateway, Schmucke read the document, saw the imputations made against him, and, all ignorant as he was of the amenities of the law, the blow was deadly. The little grain of sand stopped his heart's beating.
I kept them because Bordin died soon after, before I had a chance to return them. You shall read them. You will find the facts much more succinctly stated than I could state them. Those facts are so numerous that I should only lose myself in the details and confuse them, whereas in those papers you have them in a legal summary.
Then they squabbled violently with each other, he with a pale face and a biting manner, she purple with rage, tearing tufts of grey hair from under her cotton cap. Madame Bordin took Germaine's part, while Mélie took Gorju's.
And he offered his arm to lead her towards the adjoining room. "Be careful about the steps. All right? Now observe the church window." They traced on its surface a scarlet cloak and two angels' wings. All the rest was lost under the leads which held in equilibrium the numerous breakages in the glass. The day was declining; the shadows were lengthening; Madame Bordin had become grave.
Indeed it was a rather grave subject for a lady. So he next drew out of a case several copper coins, together with a silver denarius. Madame Bordin asked the notary what sum this would be worth at the present day. The coat of mail which he was examining slipped out of his fingers; some of the links snapped. Bouvard stifled his annoyance.
"None but princes can do such prompt and graceful kindness," said the Marquis de Chargeboeuf, taking the precious draft of the petition from the hands of Bordin that he might have it signed by the four gentlemen; resolving in his own mind that he would also obtain the signatures of several august names.
He made no allusion to his neglected advice; he presented Bordin as an oracle whose counsel must be followed to the letter, and young de Grandville as a defender in whom the utmost confidence might be placed. Laurence held out her hand to the kind old man, and pressed his with an eagerness which delighted him. "You were right," she said. "Will you now take my advice?" he asked.
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