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To gain time, I advised Maxence and his mistress to keep quiet, and let this sudden change in the usual business habits of the old man be forgotten." "Protect the Bridaus, for they have nothing," said Monsieur Hochon, who in addition to all other reasons, could not forgive Gilet the terrors he had endured when fearing the pillage of his house.
But the Parisians were not clever enough; that lawyer can't crow over us Berrichons!" "How abominable!" "That's Paris for you!" "The Rabouilleuse knew they came to attack her, and she defended herself." "She did gloriously right!" To the townspeople at large the Bridaus were Parisians and foreigners; they preferred Max and Flore.
Frankness of speech is a pearl of such price that all the Knights rose to their feet as one man. "You are a fine fellow, Max!" "Well said, Max; we'll stand by you!" "A fig for the Bridaus!" "We'll bridle them!" "After all, it is only three swains to a shepherdess." "The deuce! Pere Lousteau loved Madame Rouget; isn't it better to love a housekeeper who is not yoked?"
Meantime, I offer my best shotgun the one the Emperor gave me, a treasure from the manufactory at Versailles to whoever finds a way to play the Bridaus a trick which shall get them into difficulties with Madame and Monsieur Hochon, so that those worthy old people shall send them off, or they shall be forced to go of their own accord, without, understand me, injuring the venerable ancestors of my two friends here present, Baruch and Francois."
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.
Frankness of speech is a pearl of such price that all the Knights rose to their feet as one man. "You are a fine fellow, Max!" "Well said, Max; we'll stand by you!" "A fig for the Bridaus!" "We'll bridle them!" "After all, it is only three swains to a shepherdess." "The deuce! Pere Lousteau loved Madame Rouget; isn't it better to love a housekeeper who is not yoked?"
You can do what you like," he added, offering the old man his hand, into which Rouget put his own, which Philippe shook, " whatever you like. I shall have nothing to say against it; provided the honor of the Bridaus is untouched." Gilet could look at the lieutenant-colonel as much as he pleased, for Philippe pointedly avoided casting his eyes in his direction.
You can do what you like," he added, offering the old man his hand, into which Rouget put his own, which Philippe shook, " whatever you like. I shall have nothing to say against it; provided the honor of the Bridaus is untouched." Gilet could look at the lieutenant-colonel as much as he pleased, for Philippe pointedly avoided casting his eyes in his direction.
"Besides," remarked the doctor, "you really owe him this good fortune. Max would never have allowed you to marry old Rouget. And," he added in her ear, "if you have children, you can revenge Max, for that will disinherit the Bridaus."
As manager of the joint household, she was able to pay up her stakes with the money intended for their current expenses, and she went deeper and deeper into debt, with the hope of ultimately enriching her grandson Bixiou, her dear Agathe, and the little Bridaus.
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