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Delighted to have in their house a tenant so worthy and so charitable, the Thuilliers wished to attract him to their salon, and they questioned Dutocq about him. The mayor's clerk replied as the envious reply; while doing justice to the young man he dwelt on his remarkable avarice, which might, however, be the effect of poverty. "I have had other information about him.
Du Bruel is sent for to the ministry, and Dutocq also. Everybody is asking who will be appointed." Did you find that anagram, papa Colleville?" Colleville. "Yes, here it is." An administration which sets its best friends against itself, such men as those of the 'Debats, Chateaubriand, and Royer-Collard, is only to be pitied!"
"So are you, Antoine," answered Dutocq; "you see, the newspapers do come earlier than you let us have them at the office." "They did to-day, by chance," replied Antoine, not disconcerted; "they never come two days together at the same hour." The two nephews looked at each other as if to say, in admiration of their uncle, "What cheek he has!"
"But why does the notary let it slip through his fingers?" asked Dutocq. "The notary, my dear fellow! Why, he's the very one who saves us. Forced to sell his practice, and utterly ruined besides, he reserved for himself this crumb of the cake. Believing in the honesty of that idiot Claparon, he has asked him to find a dummy purchaser.
He frequented the Thuillier salon to gain information as to Celeste's probable inheritance. He knew, like Dutocq and Phellion, the reports occasioned by Thuillier's former intimacy with Flavie, and he saw at a glance the idolatry of the Thuilliers for their godchild. Dutocq, to gain admittance to Minard's house, fawned upon him grossly.
"Then I shall breakfast at your expense; but you won't be angry, will you? Two such geniuses as you and I need never conflict. 'Isidore Baudoyer' anagrams into 'Ris d'aboyeur d'oie." Dutocq. "Nothing, indeed! I never paid so dear for anything in my life. That stuff cost six francs a yard in the best shop in the rue de la Paix, a fine dead stuff, the very thing for deep mourning." Bixiou.
Notwithstanding which flattery, Minard received Dutocq very coldly and did not invite him to his house; consequently, he made a mortal enemy of the former clerk.
Young La Billardiere, the director's son, placed as supernumerary with Baudoyer, made another member of the clique. The clever heads in the offices laughed much at this alliance of incapables. Bixiou named Baudoyer, Godard, and Dutocq a "Trinity without the Spirit," and little La Billardiere the "Pascal Lamb." "You are early this morning," said Antoine to Dutocq, laughing.
"Though I make two sous by all his breakfasts," muttered Antoine, as he heard Monsieur Dutocq close the office door, "I'd give them up to get that man out of our division." "Ah, Monsieur Sebastien, you are not the first here to-day," said Antoine, a quarter of an hour later, to the supernumerary. "Who is here?" asked the poor lad, turning pale. "Monsieur Dutocq," answered Laurent.
Dutocq can have the promise of a good place as soon as you are named head of the division." "Ah! I see what you are about, dear child," said Rabourdin; "but the game you are playing is just as dishonorable as the real thing that is going on around us. A lie is a lie, and an honest woman " "Let me use the weapons employed against us."
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