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"Only," said Brigitte, "we must first see the farm ourselves." This, the reader will remember, was her answer to la Peyrade when he first proposed the purchase of the house at the Madeleine. "Nothing is easier than that," said Cerizet. "I myself want to see it, and I have been intending to make a little excursion there.
I offer you to-day the offices of a devoted friendship, which will serve you hereafter most assuredly, if only to replace you in a honorable position. Here are my conditions " "Conditions!" exclaimed Cerizet. "In ten minutes I will bring you twenty-five thousand francs if you return to me all the notes which you have against me." "But Dutocq? and Claparon?" said Cerizet.
'Necessity, says Figaro, 'obliterates distance. Thuillier needs him to push his candidacy in the quartier Saint-Jacques, so they kissed and made up." "And no doubt," said du Portail, without much appearance of feeling, "the marriage is fixed for an early day?" "Yes," replied Cerizet, "but there's another piece of work on hand.
"Ah ca!" said la Peyrade, lowering his voice, "who is du Portail? You seem to have known him for some time. A man of your force ought to have discovered the real character of a man who seems to me to be rather mysterious." "My friend," replied Cerizet, "du Portail is a pretty strong man.
"You can't doubt," said la Peyrade, "that the virtuous Cerizet is at the bottom of it; he has thrown this firecracker between your legs by way of revenge." "Cerizet, or anybody else who wrote that diatribe is an insolent fellow," cried Thuillier, getting angry, "and the matter shall not rest there." "For my part," said la Peyrade, "I advise you to make no reply.
Let us say, moreover, that apart from self-interest, Cerizet would still have endeavored to scrape a little profit out of his friend; 'twas an instinct and a need of his nature. He had as great a horror for straight courses as the lovers of English gardens show in the lines of their paths.
"Cerizet did not care to continue the lease of the plant and premises, hence our little money difficulties. We have no one at home now but Marion and Kolb, an Alsacien as trusty as a dog, and my wife and her mother " "One word," said Petit-Claud, "don't trust that dog " "You do not know him," exclaimed David; "he is like a second self." "May I try him?" "Yes," said Sechard.
I am master of my own confidence and my own esteem; by paying you the forfeit stipulated in our deed I take the newspaper into my own hands." "Do you mean that you dismiss me?" cried la Peyrade. "The money that you have put into the affair, all your chances of election, sacrificed to the calumnies of such a being as Cerizet!"
"Oh! heavens!" said the woman, casting up her eyes; "they can inquire; I am poor; I have not a deed, nor a note, nor a share; not the slightest security of any kind in my possession." "I dare say not," said Cerizet, glancing at la Peyrade out of the corner of his eye; "but there are always friends to take care of such things.
"Besides, are we not aiming for his happiness, though the obstinate fellow persists in thwarting our benevolent intentions?" "It is true," said Cerizet, "that the result will absolve me. Yes, I'll go resolutely along the ingenious path you've traced out for me.
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