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Updated: June 23, 2025
Adolphe had designated the sixth of January as the day fixed for a meeting at which the creditors in Chaumontel's affair were to receive the sums due them. On the eleventh of February he had an appointment with the notary, in order to sign a receipt relative to Chaumontel's affair. Or else but an attempt to mention all the chances of discovery would be the undertaking of a madman.
Adolphe had designated the sixth of January as the day fixed for a meeting at which the creditors in Chaumontel's affair were to receive the sums due them. On the eleventh of February he had an appointment with the notary, in order to sign a receipt relative to Chaumontel's affair. Or else but an attempt to mention all the chances of discovery would be the undertaking of a madman.
This suspicion, whether just or unjust, engenders a multitude of domestic troubles, and here is the biggest of all. Caroline is one day led to notice that her cherished Adolphe leaves her rather too often upon a matter of business, that eternal Chaumontel's affair, which never comes to an end. Axiom. Every household has its Chaumontel's affair.
In society she makes general remarks which, to Adolphe, are very particular remarks, about their last quarrel. At the end of a fortnight a day never passes without Caroline's recalling their last quarrel by saying: "It was the day when I found Chaumontel's bill in your pocket:" or "it happened since our last quarrel:" or, "it was the day when, for the first time, I had a clear idea of life," etc.
"Why, this affair " "Chaumontel's affair?" "No, his speculations in houses that he had built by people that were insolvent." Her curiosity is in the syndic's favor. "Sit down here. There, at this distance, I will behave well, but I can look at you."
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