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Celeste, with red eyes, was talking to her godmother; Colleville and Brigitte, Flavie and Thuillier were on the steps of the broad portico leading to the entrance-hall. Desroches remarked to Theodose, who followed him to the door: "You can pay off those notes." At a single glance the shrewd attorney had comprehended the whole scheme of the barrister.
"Not at all; it is monarchical and religious, for the Grand Almoner is concerned in it. Baudoyer himself must appoint Colleville in return for ecclesiastical assistance." "What shall you do?" "What will you bid me do?" he said, with charming grace, holding out his hand.
No, monsieur, no! that passes imagination. Questioned on this subject, like Marie Antoinette, by a human tribunal, Madame Colleville would answer with the queen, 'I appeal to all mothers." "Nevertheless, my friend," said Madame Phellion, "allow me to remind you that Madame Colleville is excessively light-minded, and has given, as we al know, pretty good proofs of it."
Colleville had the sense to seem stupid; he boasted of his family happiness, and gave himself unheard-of trouble in making anagrams, in order at times to seem absorbed in that passion.
The period of your marriage with Mademoiselle Colleville is probably so near that I think you can speak of it." This opening disconcerted la Peyrade. "But, madame," he answered, in a tone that was almost tart, "you, it seems to me, must know too well everything that goes on in the Thuillier household not to be aware that the event you speak of is not approaching, and, I may add, not probable."
To another such festival on the day after election!" "What is that little bottle you have there?" said Dutocq to Mademoiselle Thuillier. "That," she said, "is one of my three bottles of Madame Amphoux' liqueur; the second is for the day of Celeste's marriage; the third for the day on which her first child is baptized." "My sister is losing her head," remarked Thuillier to Colleville.
The question then was how to transplant the professor, and Colleville politely offered him his arm. "No, monsieur," he said, "you must allow me to stay where I am. I am not dressed for a party, and besides, a strong light hurts my eyes. Moreover, I don't choose to give myself as a spectacle; it will be best that my interview with Felix Phellion should take place between 'four-eyes, as they say."
Colleville, an active man, burdened with a family of children, was fat, round, and jolly, whereas Thuillier, "the beau of the Empire" without apparent anxieties and always at leisure, was slender and thin, with a livid face and a melancholy air. "We never know," said Rabourdin, speaking of the two men, "whether our friendships are born of likeness or of contrast."
Colleville is attached to you; well, that's enough for you in this household." "Explain to me," said the handsome Thuillier to Tullia after this remark, "why women are never attached to me. I am not the Apollo Belvidere, but for all that I'm not a Vulcan; I am passably good-looking, I have sense, I am faithful " "Do you want me to tell you the truth?" replied Tullia. "Yes," said Thuillier.
That handsome Thuillier was henceforth supposed to be paying court to Madame Colleville, and was rated as one of her "attentives," a word in vogue during the Empire. "Ha! you are after my wife," said Colleville, laughing. "Take care; she'll leave you in the lurch, like all the rest." A rather clever speech, by which Colleville saved his marital dignity.
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