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He lives at home with his father, but he has bought their furniture, and has put it, and my daughter, too, into a lodging in the Chausee d'Antin; stylish quarter, isn't it?" "It seems to me pretty well arranged," said Cerizet; "and as Heaven, it appears, didn't destine us for each other "
"Lucien surely has written you a line since he came back, has he not?" he asked. "This is all that I have," answered the lawyer, and he held out a note on Mme. Sechard's writing-paper. "Very well," said Cerizet, "let Doublon be in wait at the Palet Gate about ten minutes before sunset; tell him to post his gendarmes, and you shall have our man."
"Well, yes," interrupted Cerizet, hastily, "sorrows have affected our brain slightly; but the doctors are unanimous in their diagnosis; they all say that after the birth of the first child not a trace will remain of this little trouble."
Cerizet looked at du Portail in amazement. "Ah ca!" he cried, "are you the devil, monsieur? Can nothing ever be hidden from you?" "Yes," said du Portail, "I know a good many things. But what has been settled between you and la Peyrade?" "Well, remembering my experience in the business, and not knowing whom else to get, he offered to make me manager of the paper."
Be quite easy, I have not come to ask for it; but that scoundrel, who deserves hanging, between you and me, gave me these bills, saying that there might be some chance of recovering the money; and as I do not choose to prosecute in my own name, he told me you would not refuse to back them." Cerizet looked at the bills. "But he is no longer at Frankfort," said he.
"Dear! dear! dear!" said Cerizet; "so papa Thuillier has let the wool be pulled over his eyes again!" "Leave the room!" said Thuillier; "you have nothing more to do here." "Hey, my boy!" said Cerizet, turning to la Peyrade, "so you've twisted the old bourgeois round your finger again? Well, well, no matter! I think you are making a mistake not to go and see du Portail, and I shall tell him "
Still, as he had done nothing as yet to imperil his title of 'courageous Cerizet, the Government proposed by way of compensation that he should manage a newspaper; nominally an Opposition newspaper, but Ministerialist in petto. So the fall of this noble nature was really due to the Government.
"You think you can laugh at me, great man," returned Vauvinet, once more jovial and caressing; "you've turned La Fontaine's fable of 'Le Chene et le Roseau' into an elixir Come, Gubetta, my old accomplice," he continued, seizing Bixiou round the waist, "you want money; well, I can borrow three thousand francs from my friend Cerizet instead of two; 'Let us be friends, Cinna! hand over your colossal cabbages, made to trick the public like a gardener's catalogue.
The Sieur Cadenet, the wine-merchant, in view of the custom which he owed to the usurer, had let him the two rooms for the low price of eighty francs a year, and had given him a lease for twelve years, which Cerizet alone had a right to break, without paying indemnity, at three months' notice.
"Well!" said Cerizet, "now the humbug begins." The words seemed to come wholly through the hole in his nose with horrible intonations. "You have put me in a magnificent position, and I shall never forget the service you have done me, my friend," began Theodose, with emotion. "Oh, that's how you take it, is it?" said Cerizet. "Listen to me; you don't understand my intentions."
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