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Denisart was partial to blue; his roomy trousers and well-worn greatcoat were both of blue cloth. "'How long is it since that old fogy came here? inquired Maxime, thinking that he saw danger in the spectacles. "'Oh, from the beginning, returned Antonia, 'pretty nearly two months ago now. "'Good," said Maxime to himself, 'Cerizet only came to me a month ago.
So the first bill of three thousand francs was met by the amiable coach-builder; that old scoundrel Denisart having recommended him to secure himself with a mortgage on the reading-room. "'For my own part, said Denisart, 'I have seen pretty doings from pretty women. So in all cases, even when I have lost my head, I am always on my guard with a woman.
"'There, Daddy Croizeau, you see what comes of boring a woman "'It is indeed a lesson, my pretty lady, said the guileful Croizeau. 'Meanwhile, I have never seen a man in such a state. Our friend Denisart cannot tell his left hand from his right; he will not go back to look at the "scene of his happiness," as he calls it. "'A pretty name, said Antonia. "'Yes.
He exerted his ingenuity to scrape an acquaintance with Denisart, came up with him in the street, and at length seized his opportunity to remark, 'It is a fine day, sir! "Whereupon the retired official responded with, 'Austerlitz weather, sir. I was there myself I was wounded indeed, I won my Cross on that glorious day.
"'The cut of his countenance is not reassuring, said Maxime, beholding the Sieur Denisart. "And indeed the old soldier held himself upright as a steeple. His head was remarkable for the amount of powder and pomatum bestowed upon it; he looked almost like a postilion at a fancy ball.
"Maxime looked through the directory, and found the following reassuring item: "DENISART,* retired custom-house officer, Rue de la Victoire. "His uneasiness vanished. "Gradually the Sieur Denisart and the Sieur Croizeau began to exchange confidences. Nothing so binds two men together as a similarity of views in the matter of womankind.
"She is the bella Imperia of our day." "With her rough skin!" exclaimed Malaga; "so rough, that she ruins herself in bran baths!" "Croizeau spoke with a coach-builder's admiration of the sumptuous furniture provided by the amorous Denisart as a setting for his fair one, describing it all in detail with diabolical complacency for Antonia's benefit," continued Desroches.
"'Oh, I shall be much kinder before I have done. Just imagine it, poor M. Denisart has been worried into the jaundice! Yes, it has gone to the liver, as it usually does with susceptible old men. It is a pity he feels things so. I told him so myself; I said, "Be passionate, there is no harm in that, but as for taking things to heart draw the line at that! It is the way to kill yourself."
Beholding this miracle of female loveliness through the window-panes, he took it into his head to read the newspapers in the beauty's reading-room; and a sometime custom-house officer, named Denisart, with a ribbon in his button-hole, followed the example. Croizeau chose to look upon Denisart as a rival. 'Monsieur, he said afterwards, 'I did not know what to buy for you!
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