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Du Bruel, Claparon, Desroches, and the Abbe Loraux carefully observed the returned exile, whose manners and coarse features, and voice roughened by the abuse of liquors, together with his vulgar glance and phraseology, alarmed them not a little. While Joseph was placing the card-tables, the more intimate of the family friends surrounded Agathe and asked, "What do you intend to make of Philippe?"
Desroches was moreover a man of parts and witty; loving the pleasures of the table, and like all men perpetually the slaves of imperious toil, he felt the need of vigorous amusement, taken on the wing and highly spiced.
"It would be well to read that letter to the two women," said the old man. "There it is," said Joseph, giving it to him; "as to me, I want to be off to-morrow; and I am now going to say good-by to my uncle." "Ah!" said Monsieur Hochon, "I see that Monsieur Desroches tells you in a postscript to burn the letter." "You can burn it after showing it to my mother," said the painter.
A clerk should never spend more than seven hundred francs a year. Good stout shirts of strong linen are what you want. Ha! when a man starts from nothing to reach fortune, he has to keep down to bare necessities. Look at Monsieur Desroches; he did what we are doing, and see where he is now." Godeschal preached by example.
Vice! vice! my dear friends, do you want to know what vice is? It is the Bonneau of death." "Then you'll die of a joke," said Desroches, laughing. Above the fourth floor, the young men were forced to climb one of the steep, straight stairways that are almost ladders, by which the attics of Parisian houses are often reached.
"You must go and see des Lupeaulx, and beg him to give you a personal recommendation to a lawyer named Desroches, a cunning dog, whom you must call on at his office.
Mother and son impatiently awaited an answer to the confidential letter they had written to Desroches.
"Neither you nor Philippe should manage this delicate matter," she urged. "Our two old friends Du Bruel and Claparon are dead, but we still have Desroches, who is very sagacious. I'll go and see him this morning.
"Well, think of your mother who has been so devoted to you, and of your brother, whom you made your milch cow." "Ah! did he tell you that nonsense?" cried Philippe. "Am I not the friend of the family, and don't I know much more about you than they do?" asked Desroches. "What do you know?" said Philippe. "That you betrayed your comrades." "I!" exclaimed Philippe. "I! a staff-officer of the Emperor!
Women understand nothing of these things; for them, love is always a millionaire." "But since neither du Tillet nor Desroches married her; just explain Ferdinand's motive," said Finot. "Motive?" repeated Bixiou; "why, this. General Rule: A girl that has once given away her slipper, even if she refused it for ten years, is never married by the man who "
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