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Bouvard was assiduously paying his addresses to Madame Bordin. She used to receive him rather cramped in her gown of shot silk, which creaked like a horse's harness, all the while fingering her long gold chain to keep herself in countenance. Their conversations turned on the people of Chavignolles or on "the dear departed," who had been an usher at Livarot.
The notary replied: "But the language are you thinking of that?" "The language? How?" "He refers to the style," said Pécuchet. "Do you consider his works well written?" "No doubt, exceedingly interesting." He shrugged his shoulders, and she blushed at the impertinence. Madame Bordin had several times attempted to come back to her own business transaction. It was too late to conclude it.
Here is a list of the items, continued Bordin, showing me a paper from which he read the total, 'Seventeen thousand francs in coin; a sum with which a house could be bought that would bring in two thousand francs a year. After replacing the list in the case, Bordin gave me a note for a sum equivalent to a hundred louis in gold, with a letter in which Mongenod admitted having received my hundred louis, on which he owed interest.
She wished to buy the Ecalles from him. Bouvard experienced a kind of chilling sensation, and he hurried towards Pécuchet's room. Pécuchet did not know what reply to make. He was in an anxious frame of mind, as M. Vaucorbeil was to be there presently. At length Madame Bordin arrived.
God grant that none of the prisoners may reveal the truth and compromise the defence; if they do, we must rely on our cross-examinations." Laurence wrung her hands in despair and raised her eyes to heaven with a despondent look, for she saw at last in all its depths the gulf into which her cousins had fallen. The marquis and the young lawyer agreed with the dreadful view of Bordin.
To discover them, even to get upon their traces, we need as much power as the government itself, as many agents and as many eyes as there are townships in a radius of fifty miles." "The thing is impossible," said Bordin. "There's no use thinking of it.
"I at once consulted old M. Bordin as to what I ought to do," she went on; "but it seems that there are so many difficulties in the way of depriving a father of the care of his children, that I was forced to resign myself to remaining alone at the age of twenty-two an age at which many young women do very foolish things.
Foreseeing the haste with which the law would be administered, this chief of a great family had already gone to Paris and secured the services of the most able as well as the most honest lawyer of the old school, named Bordin, who was for ten years counsel of the nobility in Paris, and was ultimately succeeded by the celebrated Derville.
As for the Emperor, he has other fish to fry than to consider the case of these gentlemen, supposing even that they had not conspired against him. But who the devil is Malin's enemy? and what has really been done with him?" Bordin and Monsieur de Grandville looked at each other; they seemed in doubt as to Laurence's veracity.
However, her talents for housekeeping were well known, and she had a little farm, which was admirably looked after. Foureau asked Bouvard, "Is it your intention to sell yours?" "Upon my word, up to this I don't know what to do exactly." "What! not even the Escalles piece?" interposed the notary. "That would suit you, Madame Bordin."
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