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The entrance of Marie, accompanied by Jeanne Favart, greatly surprised and startled M. Derville; he glanced sharply in her face, but unable to encounter the indignant expression he met there, quickly averted his look, whilst a hot flush glowed perceptibly out of his pale features.
"Besides, madame," he went on aloud, "he would feel all the less remorse because a man covered with glory a General, Count, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor is not such a bad alternative; and if that man insisted on his wife's returning to him " "Enough, enough, monsieur!" she exclaimed. "I will never have any lawyer but you. What is to be done?" "Compromise!" said Derville.
"We can be back again in four days," Corentin went on, addressing Derville, "and neither of us will have neglected his business long enough for it to suffer." "That was the only difficulty I was about to mention to his Grace," said Derville. "It is now four o'clock.
The children at once kept a respectful silence, which showed the power the old soldier had over them. "Why did you not write to me?" he said to Derville. "Go along by the cowhouse! There the path is paved there," he exclaimed, seeing the lawyer's hesitancy, for he did not wish to wet his feet in the manure heap.
Fortunately for Bertrand, who was no match in personal strength for the man he had assaulted, his friend De Beaune promptly took part in the encounter; and after a desperate scuffle, during which Mademoiselle de la Tour's remonstrances and entreaties were unheard or disregarded, M. Derville was thrust with inexcusable violence into the street.
Can it be the earnings of some handsome baggage?" said Derville, as they sat down to dinner. "Ah, that will be the subject of another inquiry," said Corentin. "Lucien de Rubempre, as the Duc de Chaulieu tells me, lives with a converted Jewess, who passes for a Dutch woman, and is called Esther van Bogseck." "What a strange coincidence!" said the lawyer.
'Monsieur Derville, said the clerk, 'is now at the bank; and Monsieur Blaise requests your presence there, so that whatever misapprehension exists may be cleared up without the intervention of the agents of the public force.
Dufour and Derville were talking together in front of the office; and when they separated on Bertrand's approach, the young man fancied that Derville saluted him with unusual friendliness. De Beaune's security was declined by the cautious trader; and as Bertrand was leaving, Dufour said, half-jestingly no doubt: 'Why don't you apply to your friend Derville?
'What do you say? exclaimed Derville, with quick interrogation, 'for the sake of Mademoiselle de la Tour! Bah! you could not have heard aright. 'Pardon, monsieur, said the clerk who had accompanied Dufour: 'I also distinctly heard her so express herself but here is the lady herself.
The women left the room to go and weep by themselves in Cesarine's chamber. "Now I can get a loan!" cried Birotteau. "It would be imprudent," said Derville; "they have appealed; the court might reverse the judgment; but in a month it would be safe." "A month!"
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