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Updated: July 10, 2025
"I never liked that painter's face," said the lieutenant to Monsieur Mouilleron. "My good woman," said the judge to Gritte, when she appeared, "they say you saw Monsieur Joseph Bridau leave the house this morning?" "Yes, monsieur," she answered, trembling like a leaf. "At what hour?" "Just as I was getting up: he walked about his room all night, and was dressed when I came downstairs."
Not knowing that La Foret was Moliere's servant-woman, Madame Moreau inclined her head graciously, showing that in her ignorance she accepted the speech as a compliment. "Didn't he propose to 'croquer' you?" asked Bridau. "Painters are eager enough after handsome women." "What may you mean by such language?"
"But Gilet is a man who couldn't stay in a hole like Issoudun without finding something to do." "Well, gentlemen," remarked another, "Max and the colonel must play out their game. Bridau had to avenge his brother. Don't you remember Max's treachery to the poor lad?" "Bah! nothing but an artist," said Renard. "But the real question is about the old man's property," said a third.
"You certainly have very singular ideas about the clergy," said Madame Hochon to her husband. "Bah!" exclaimed the old man, "that's just like you pious women." "God would never bless an enterprise undertaken in a sacrilegious spirit," said Madame Bridau. "Use religion for such a purpose! Why, we should be more criminal than Flore."
The old millionaire's selfishness had to give way to his duties as a lover. The Baron suffered but stayed. Esther had her own reasons for detaining "her man." If she admitted her acquaintance, she would be less closely questioned in his presence than if she were alone. Philippe Bridau hurried back to the box where the dancers were sitting, and informed them of the state of affairs.
As a widow, Madame Bridau could live suitably on an income of six thousand francs.
"Where has work brought you?" asked Lucien, laughing. "When you start out from Paris for Italy, you don't find Rome half-way," said Joseph Bridau. "You want your pease to grow ready buttered for you." The conversation ended in a joke, and they changed the subject.
Meantime the Knights were searching for a way to put the Parisians to flight, and finding none that were not impracticable follies. At the end of a week half the time the Parisians were to stay in Issoudun the Bridaus were no farther advanced in their object than when they came. "Your lawyer does not understand the provinces," said old Hochon to Madame Bridau.
With a salary of twelve thousand francs and very handsome emoluments, Bridau was quite indifferent to the scandalous settlement of the property at Issoudun, by which Agathe was deprived of her rightful inheritance.
"You know him, of course?" continued Estelle, after a slight pause. "Who does not know him, madame?" said the painter. "Knows him like his double," remarked Mistigris. "Monsieur Grindot told me your name," said Madame Moreau to the painter. "But " "Joseph Bridau," he replied, wondering with what sort of woman he had to do.
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