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He bade you give me that message, the miserable old son of a spider! Quatre-vingt mille plats de diables aux truffes! Take my windows out of the frames, indeed! Let him try, Madame Duphôt that's all let him try!"
Des Lupeaulx allowed himself to be drawn into an engagement by the handsome Madame Rabourdin, who, for the first time, turned her eyes on him as she spoke. He had, accordingly, gone to the rue Duphot, and that tells the tale. Woman has but one trick, cries Figaro, but that's infallible. After dining once at the house of this unimportant official, des Lupeaulx made up his mind to dine there often.
La Peyrade, thus arrested, looked round and found himself in the arms of Phellion. The scene took place in front of a house which was being pulled down at the corner of the rues Duphot and Saint-Honore.
It needed this recommendation at such a moment, or Saniel would not have opened it, which he did as soon as he entered his rooms. "I do not wish, my dear Doctor, to leave Paris for Monaco, where I go to pass two or three months, without sending you our thanks. "Yours very gratefully, "C. DUPHOT."
"Get along with you, M'sieur Müller," she said. "You're always playing the farceur! The parcel was brought by a man who looked like a stonemason." "And nobody has called?" "Nobody, except M'sieur Richard." "Monsieur Richard's visits are always gratifying and delightful may the diable fly away with him!" said Müller. "What did dear Monsieur Richard want to-day, Madame Duphôt?"
Ah! my little cats, I know you! for, after all, women are just what we men are. Twenty-eight years old, virtuous, and living here in the rue Duphot! a rare piece of luck and worth cultivating," thought the elderly butterfly as he fluttered down the staircase.
His first impulse was to refuse. Of what use to give alms to this old monkey? But, after all, it did not cost much to pay his witness five louis, and he gave them to him. "A thousand thanks! This evening, at ten o'clock." As Saniel left the room he found himself face to face with his old comrade Duphot, who was accompanied by a woman, the same whom he had cured.
"He says, if you don't both of you pay up the arrears by midday on Sunday next, he'll seize your goods, and turn you into the street." "Ah, I always said he was the nicest man I knew!" observed Müller, gravely. "Anything else, Madame Duphôt?" "Only this, Monsieur Müller that if you didn't go quietly, he'd take your windows out of the frames and your doors off the hinges." "Comment!
He told her how he had played and won, without stating the exact sum; also the propositions of the Prince Mazzazoli, the meeting with Duphot, and the telegram to Jardine. "Oh! What happiness!" she said, pressing him in her arms. "You are free!" "No more creditors! I am my own master. You see it was a good inspiration. Justice willed it."
When he came to see us the day after my return home, I remained talking with him for a time in the drawing-room, and confided my intentions to him. He quite approved, and said that my intercourse with my mother would be all the more agreeable because of this separation. I took a flat in the Rue Duphot, quite near to my mother, and Madame Guerard undertook to have it furnished for me.
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