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He looked about for a bell, and seeing none, he was reduced to the dire necessity of opening the door himself, and calling some one. Madame Dodelin answered the summons. "Monsieur said he would return before midnight," she replied; "so he will certainly be here. There is no one like him for punctuality. Won't monsieur have patience a little longer?"
M. Fortunat had scarcely started off on his visit to the Vantrassons when the Marquis de Valorsay reached the Place de la Bourse. "Monsieur has gone out," said Madame Dodelin, as she opened the door. "You must be mistaken, my good woman." "No, no; my master said you would, perhaps, wait for him." "Very well; I will do so."
But just before daybreak he fell asleep; and at nine o'clock he was still slumbering so soundly that Madame Dodelin, his housekeeper, had considerable difficulty in waking him. "Your clerks have come," she exclaimed, shaking him vigorously; "and two clients are waiting for you in the reception-room." He sprang up, hastily dressed himself, and went into his office.
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