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"What brings you here, Monsieur Desmarets? What do you want with me?" "Jacquet, I want you to decipher a secret, a secret of life and death." "It doesn't concern politics?" "If it did, I shouldn't come to you for information," said Jules. "No, it is a family matter, about which I require you to be absolutely silent." "Claude-Joseph Jacquet, dumb by profession.
What! be forced to blush before the men I had injured, to bear their suspicious looks and tacit reproaches? I can conceive of the guillotine a moment, and all is over. But to have the head replaced, and daily cut off anew, that is agony I could not have borne. Many men take up their business as if nothing had happened: so much the better for them; they are stronger than Claude-Joseph Pillerault.
The grandfather of the subject of this sketch Claude-Joseph Vernet studied in Rome, and became a distinguished marine painter under the reign of Louis XV., who commissioned him to paint a series of pictures. Carle Vernet, the father of Horace Vernet, was also an artist. When quite young, he fell violently in love with the daughter of an opulent furnisher.
Claude-Joseph Pillerault, formerly an iron-monger at the sign of the Cloche d'Or, had one of those faces whose beauty shines from the inner to the outer; about him all things harmonized, dress and manners, mind and heart, thought and speech, words and acts.
The lover was backed up in his suit by the guardian of Constance, Monsieur Claude-Joseph Pillerault, at that time an ironmonger on the Quai de la Ferraille, whom the young man had finally discovered by devoting himself to the subterraneous spying which distinguishes a genuine love.
"What brings you here, Monsieur Desmarets? What do you want with me?" "Jacquet, I want you to decipher a secret, a secret of life and death." "It doesn't concern politics?" "If it did, I shouldn't come to you for information," said Jules. "No, it is a family matter, about which I require you to be absolutely silent." "Claude-Joseph Jacquet, dumb by profession.
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