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Updated: May 21, 2025
Oh! how sweet had been the perfume exhaled by her, his sweetheart of bygone days! Duchoux saw him to the door. "This house is your own?" said the baron. "Yes, monsieur; I bought it recently. And I am proud of it. I am a child of accident, monsieur, and I don't want to hide it; I am proud of it. I owe nothing to anyone; I am the son of my own efforts; I owe everything to myself."
He had many years ago, in the mocking spirit of a skeptical man of pleasure, given this name to the foundling, in order that it might not be forgotten that he had been picked up under a cabbage. The servant-girl asked: "Do you want M. Duchoux?" "Yes." "Well, he is in the big room drawing up his plans." "Tell him that M. Merlin wishes to speak to him."
A servant-girl appeared, a true servant of the South, dirty and untidy, with her hair hanging in wisps and falling over her face, while her petticoat under the accumulation of stains which had soiled it had retained only a certain uncouth remnant of its old color, a hue suitable for a country fair or a mountebank's tights. He asked: "Is M. Duchoux at home?"
He asked with a very pronounced southern accent: "Whom have I the honor of ?" "Monsieur Merlin I came to consult you about a purchase of building-ground." "Ha! ha! very well!" And Duchoux, turning towards his wife, who was knitting in the shade: "Clear off a chair, Josephine."
"You have two of them?" "Three, monsieur; one a year." And Duchoux looked full of pride. The baron was thinking: "If they all have the same perfume, their nursery must be a real conservatory." He continued: "Yes, I would like a nice piece of ground near the sea, on a little solitary strip of beach " Thereupon Duchoux proceeded to explain.
She replied, in amazement: "Hey! go inside then, if you want to see him." And she bawled out: "Monsieur Duchoux a call." The baron entered, and in a spacious apartment, rendered dark by the windows being half-closed, he indistinctly traced out persons and things, which appeared to him very slovenly looking.
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