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Suddenly, however, Laguitte, who kept his eye on the square, gave a start. "Hallo, there's Burle!" he exclaimed. "Yes, it is his time," explained Phrosine. "The captain passes every afternoon on his way from the office." In spite of his lameness the major had risen to his feet, pushing aside the chairs as he called out: "Burle! I say come along and have a glass."
I went there, and a maid grinned at me, saying that the captain had gone home to bed. Curse the girl! I suspected as much and felt like pulling her ears!" After this outburst he became somewhat calmer, stamping about the room in an undecided way, withal seeming greatly disturbed. Mme Burle looked at him attentively. "Is it the captain personally whom you want to see?" she said at last.
On the other hand, Burle fenced indifferently and passed for a poltroon. However, they would soon know what to think. Meanwhile the excitement became more and more intense as the acceptance of Laguitte's resignation was so long in coming. The major was unmistakably the most anxious and upset of everybody. A week had passed by, and the general inspection would commence two days later.
And yet his first efforts had filled her with pride, and she had hoped to see her dreams realized. Burle had only just left Saint-Cyr when he distinguished himself at the battle of Solferino, where he had captured a whole battery of the enemy's artillery with merely a handful of men.
With increasing profanity the major rose to his feet, shook his fist at the ceiling and then fell back in his chair. Mme Burle again repeated: "He has stolen. It was inevitable." Then without a word of judgment or condemnation she added simply: "Two thousand francs we have not got them. There are barely thirty francs in the house." "I expected as much," said Laguitte.
She was now reclining behind the counter, already reading a novel again. "How's this you are not drinking with Madame?" roughly said the major to Burle. "Be civil at least!" Then as Doucet and Morandot were again preparing to leave, he stopped them. "Why can't you wait? We'll go together. It is only this brute who never knows how to behave himself."
All the same he groped his way as gently as possible to the door and listened. Two people were talking in the room, and he stood aghast, for it was Burle and that fright Rose! Then he listened, and the conversation he heard left him no doubt of the awful truth. For a moment he lifted his stick as if to beat down the door. Then he shuddered and, staggering back, leaned against the wall.
Yet here sits the Lord Giovanni making merry with balls and masques and burle and banquets, wholly unprepared, wholly unconscious of his peril.
At every page he discovered thefts of a few francs the most miserable petty thefts ten, eight, eleven francs, latterly, three and four; and, indeed, there was one column showing that Burle had pilfered just one franc and a half.
When Charles had laid his books aside Laguitte was surprised to see a maid come in to lay the cloth. "So you keep a servant now," he remarked to Mme Burle. "I had to get one," she answered with a sigh. "My legs are not what they used to be, and the household was going to rack and ruin. Fortunately Cabrol let me have his daughter. You know old Cabrol, who sweeps the market?
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