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Updated: May 28, 2025
"The Dujarrier's money will not go much further," she thought. "It is finished." She thought of striking a decisive blow. Up to the present time, her relations with Sulpice had floated in the regions of the sentimentalities of the novel, or of romance. The minister believed himself loved for love's sake.
"That would surprise me!" said Gochard. "But, saperlipopette, you are not very polite in your set!" "Not very polite with boors! You are in my house!" "Oh! you can't teach me where I am!" said the Dujarrier's lover, with a wink of his eye.
And then with a sort of swaggering air like that of a fencing-master or tippler, searching for some droll expressions, cowardly avenging himself by jests ejected like so many streams of tobacco, against this woman who had just insulted him, who spoke of blackmail and the police, and of thrusting the miserable fellow out of doors, he told everything that he knew; Marianne's neediness, her weariness, her loves, the Dujarrier connection, the renting of the Hôtel Vanda, the Vaudrey paper and its renewals, his own foolishness as a too artless and tender, good sort of fellow, relying on Claire Dujarrier's word, and not reserving to himself so much per cent in the affair!
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