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"So many!" exclaimed Amelie, interrupting the Duchess. "Well, my dear, and not a word that could compromise her is to be found in any one of them." "You would be incapable of maintaining such coldness, such caution," said Madame Camusot. "You are a woman; you are one of those angels who cannot stand out against the devil " "I have made a vow to write no more letters.
Her sister-in-law, Madame Camusot, who knew nothing of the fateful secret, was terrified at such a marriage for her niece. Monsieur Camusot, a Councillor of the Supreme Court, old Camusot's son by his first marriage, had given his step-mother, who was Cardot's sister, a far from flattering account of the journalist.
You must expect to hear it said all over the town to-morrow that I took a walk with a lover this morning." Mme. Camusot took the Duchess' arm, and they went through the town by deserted streets to avoid any unpleasant adventure on the way to the old Vice-President's house. Chesnel meanwhile conferred with the young Count in prison; Camusot had arranged a stolen interview.
"Explain yourself," said the judge, "that is what you are here for." "Well, monsieur, I must have a great many scars on my back, for I was shot in the back as a traitor to my country while I was faithful to my King, by constitutionalists who left me for dead." "You were shot, and you are alive!" said Camusot.
"O! Mme. la Duchesse, you are an angel!" cried Chesnel, with tears in his eyes. "Then am I going to see a man called Camusot?" she asked.
He turned into a curiosity shop, tempted by a Boule clock. "Not to be false to my conscience, and yet to oblige two great ladies that will be a triumph of skill," thought he. "What, do you collect coins too, monsieur?" said Camusot to the Public Prosecutor, whom he found in the shop. "It is a taste dear to all dispensers of justice," said the Comte de Granville, laughing.
Camusot de Marville avowed with due circumspection that she was prepared to take almost any son-in-law with her eyes shut. She was even disposed to think that at eight-and-forty or so a man with twenty thousand francs a year was a good match. "Cecile is in her twenty-third year.
During the discussion, moreover, every one at table had made a remarkably good supper, and such wines are not met with every day. Lousteau, sitting beside Camusot, furtively poured cherry-brandy several times into his neighbor's wineglass, and challenged him to drink. And Camusot drank, all unsuspicious, for he thought himself, in his own way, a match for a journalist.
Coralie and Lucien had been behaving like children all the evening; as soon as the wine was uppermost in Camusot's head, they made good their escape down the staircase and sprang into a cab. Camusot subsided under the table; Matifat, looking round for him, thought that he had gone home with Coralie, left his guests to smoke, laugh, and argue, and followed Florine to her room.
It is lucky for him that the President has taken this journey to turn us out, for now that great oaf of a Joseph Blondet will marry Mlle. Blandureau. I will let Father Blondet have some seeds in return. As for you, Camusot, go to M. Michu's, while Mme. la Duchesse and I will go to find old Blondet.
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