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Begin by telling us what you learned from Madame Dammauville. It is her condition that will decide our course, at least that which Nougarde counsels us to adopt." "When the concierge saw me return," Phillis began, "she showed a certain surprise; but she is a good woman, who is easily tamed, and I had not much trouble in making her tell me all she knows of Madame Dammauville.
"When I persisted on the consultation, Madame Dammauville recalled what I had said, and she was the first you hear? the first to pronounce your name. As you had cured my mother, I had the right to praise you. With a nature like hers, she would not have understood if I had not done it; she would have believed me ungrateful.
Saniel became, then, as he had been before the intervention of Madame Dammauville, the only hope of Phillis and her mother, and to encourage them he exaggerated the influence that his testimony would have. "When I shall have demonstrated that there was no struggle, the hypothesis of the torn button will crumble by itself." "And if it is sustained, how and with what shall we overthrow it?"
"I heard," she said. "What a disappointment! But I cannot wish you to stay, since it is for Florentin that you leave me." As she walked toward the door he stopped her. "Embrace me once more." Never had he pressed her in such a long and passionate embrace. He had not a second of doubt; Madame Dammauville did not wish a professional visit from him.
In default of Madame Dammauville, Nougarede had summoned the concierge of Rue Sainte-Anne, as well as the maid and the cook, who had heard their mistress say that the man who drew Caffies curtains did not resemble Florentin's portrait; but this was only gossip repeated by persons of no importance, who could not produce the effect of the 'coup de theatre' on which he had based his defence.
"I must tell you," Balzajette interrupted, "that before occupying this house that belongs to her, Madame Dammauville lived in a more modern apartment which was heated by a furnace, and where consequently it was easier to maintain an even temperature to which she was accustomed."
You came to tell mamma!" she exclaimed, on seeing Saniel. Ordinarily her mother listened to her respectfully, but now she interrupted her. "And Madame Dammauville?" she asked. "Madame Dammauville has excellent eyes. She is a woman of intellect, who, without the assistance of any business man, manages her fortune." Overcome, Madame Cormier fell into a chair. "Oh, the poor child!" she murmured.
But this idea did not enter his mind, and, to save himself from an immediate danger, he threw himself into another which, although uncertain, was not less grave. Little by little Phillis recovered herself, and the hope that Madame Dammauville put in her heart, momentarily crushed by Saniel's remarks, sprang up again. "Is it not possible Madame Dammauville really saw what she relates?"
"See Madame Dammauville often," he said to Phillis, "and note all that she feels; perhaps I shall find some way to repair this impediment, something that I may suggest to Balzajette without his suspecting it.
"I do not say this testimony of Madame Dammauville will not influence the judge, and, above all, the jury; but I must warn you that you will expose yourself to a terrible deception if you believe that her testimony alone will give your brother liberty.
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