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The cardinal ended by permitting the liberties taken in literary matters by Chapelain and even Colletet. His courtiers were complimenting him about some success or other obtained by the king's arms, saying that nothing could withstand his Eminence. "You are mistaken," he answered, laughing; "and I find even in Paris persons who withstand me.
One stockholder alone did not seem to share the general enthusiasm: he was no other than our old friend, M. Chapelain, the ex-lawyer. "That fellow, Thaller, is just capable of getting himself out of the scrape," he grumbled. "I must tell Maxence." We have every species of courage in France, and to a superior degree, except that of braving public opinion.
"And with what, pray?" "With my salary." "You have a salary, then?" Maxence blushed. "I have what I earn at my employer's." "What employer?" "The architect in whose office M. Chapelain helped me to find a place." With a threatening gesture, M. Favoral interrupted him. "Spare me your lies," he uttered. "I am better posted than you suppose.
"Name his accomplices." "And suppose he had no proofs of their complicity to offer? He was the cashier of the Mutual Credit; and it is from his cash that the millions are gone." Mlle. Gilberte's conjectures had run far ahead of that sentence. Looking straight at Marius, "Then," she said, "you believe, as M. Chapelain does, that M. de Thaller " "Ah! M. Chapelain thinks "
Here knights and ladies attempted to form a legal code governing love affairs, of which a Latin edition exists in the De arte honeste amandi of André le Chapelain, written at the outset of the thirteenth century.
Literature was there represented by Malherbe and Racan, afterwards by Balzac and Voiture, Gombault and Chapelain, who constantly met there, in company with Princess de Conde and her daughter, subsequently Duchess de Longueville, Mademoiselle du Vigean, Madame and Mdlle. d'Epernon, and the Bishop of Lucon himself, quite young as yet, but already famous.
The first arguments were addressed to the Academy, the last one was aimed at the Cardinal. After the pin-pricks the blow with a club. A judge was needed to decide the question. Chapelain gave judgment.
"Neighbors too, people from whom we bought our things! But they were worse than savages; impossible to do any thing with them." "Don't trouble yourself, my good girl," said M. Chapelain: "they won't come back any more!" Mme. Favoral looked as if she wished to drop on her knees before the old lawyer. "How, very kind you are!" she murmured: "you are not too angry with my poor Vincent!"
With the look of a man who has made up his mind to make the best of a disaster that he cannot help, M. Chapelain shrugged his shoulders. "I am angry with no one but myself," he uttered in a bluff tone. "An old bird like me should not have allowed himself to be caught in a pigeon-trap. I am inexcusable. But we want to get rich.
After Maxence had left to go and meet M. de Tregars, Mme. Favoral and her daughter had remained alone with M. Chapelain, and had been compelled to bear the brunt of his wrath, and to hear his interminable complaints. He was certainly an excellent man, that old lawyer, and too just to hold Mlle. Gilberte or her mother responsible for Vincent Favoral's acts.
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