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You are a curious kind of innocent still, my dear colleague." Dutocq. "Well, you needn't make the lithograph till success is proved." Bixiou. "Why don't you come out and tell me the whole truth?" Dutocq. Colleville will be under-head-clerk at the very least. Minard may have my place as chief clerk why not? he is quite as dull as I am.
"All of which signifies that in a country where there are three powers you may bet a thousand to one that a government clerk who has no influence but his own merits to advance him will remain in obscurity." Fleury. "Because it has a constitutional government." Colleville. "Gentlemen, gentlemen! no politics!" Bixiou. "Fleury is right.
"And how much does it cost you?" asked Francois Keller rudely it was said that he had spent twenty-five thousand francs a year on Madame Colleville. "Dat voman is an anchel! She never has ask' me for one sou." "They never do," replied du Tillet. "And it is to avoid asking that they have always aunts or mothers."
"It is Colleville who is making him laugh," cried Dutocq. Just then Colleville and la Peyrade returned from the garden the very best friends in the world. "Messieurs," said Brigitte, "the soup and the King must never be kept waiting; give your hand to the ladies."
"Then," said la Peyrade, "it must really have been another match; for that woman, after many singular preliminaries, too long to explain to you, made me a formal offer of the hand of a young woman much richer than Mademoiselle Colleville " "And hysterical?" asked Cerizet. "No, she did not embellish the proposal with that accessory; but there's another detail which may put you on the track of her.
"I am too much Colleville's friend not to beg you, Monsieur Fleury, to speak respectfully of his wife." Phellion. "A defenceless woman should never be made the subject of conversation here " Vimeux. "All the more because the charming Madame Colleville won't invite Fleury to her house. He backbites her in revenge." Fleury.
"Theodose de la Peyrade; he is a barrister," replied Thuillier, in a whisper. At that moment the women present, as well as the men, looked at the two young fellows, and Madame Minard remarked to Colleville: "He is rather good-looking, that stranger."
A place was made for him at table between Colleville and Mademoiselle Minard, and the former made it his business to fill the glass of his new neighbor, before whom was placed a dish of small cakes. "Monsieur," said la Peyrade in a cajoling tone, "you saw how surprised we were to hear you complain of Monsieur Felix Phellion, so amiable, so inoffensive a young man.
"Yes," she said, "he is really going, and Thuillier is bowing him out respectfully!" As Thuillier did not immediately return, Colleville had time to go to the window and exclaim at seeing the little old gentleman driving away in an elegant coupe, of which the reader has already heard. "The deuce!" cried Colleville; "what an ornate livery! If he is an adventurer he is a number one."
To every man who launches a bit of writing into the world, the public consists of five or six intimates who cannot, without offending the author, avoid knowing something more or less of his lucubrations. "As for me!" cried Colleville, "I can truthfully declare that it is the first political article I ever read that didn't send me to sleep."
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