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While this idle talk had been going on, des Lupeaulx was closeted in his office with du Bruel, where, a little later, Dutocq joined them. Des Lupeaulx had heard from his valet of La Billardiere's death, and wishing to please the two ministers, he wanted an obituary article to appear in the evening papers.
"Oh!" said Thuillier, in whom the jealousy between the two classes of the bourgeoisie was fully roused, "take offices away from those fellows and they'd fall back where they came." Mademoiselle was knitting with such precipitous haste that she seemed to be propelled by a steam-engine. "Take my place, Monsieur Dutocq," said Madame Minard, rising.
You are a curious kind of innocent still, my dear colleague." Dutocq. "Well, you needn't make the lithograph till success is proved." Bixiou. "Why don't you come out and tell me the whole truth?" Dutocq. Colleville will be under-head-clerk at the very least. Minard may have my place as chief clerk why not? he is quite as dull as I am.
"All that is true," said Cerizet, who, however, reckoned a good deal on such chances. "Come to-morrow morning, papa Lantimeche, at six o'clock, and we'll talk it over; you can't talk inventions in public." Cerizet then turned to Dutocq whose first words were: "If the thing turns out well, half profits!"
"If I had had the honor to see you earlier, you would probably have not been so willing to support Monsieur Rabourdin, after reading his opinion of you." Dutocq opened his coat, took a paper from the left-hand breast-pocket and laid it on des Lupeaulx's desk, pointing to a marked passage. Then he went to the door and slipped the bolt, fearing interruption.
"Seized!" said Dutocq, "oh, you won't be seized; but I think the ministerial journals will fire a broadside at you." The next day Thuillier was at the office as early as eight o'clock, in order to be the first to receive that formidable salvo. After looking through every morning paper he was forced to admit that there was no more mention of the "Echo de la Bievre" than if it didn't exist.
"I shall be recognized," said Theodose, pulling Dutocq away; "we have done a foolish thing to come here at this hour and take him in the midst of his business." "All the more that Claparon may be sleeping in his lair, the interior of which we know nothing about.
Dutocq may have told you, before you left the apartment in the rue Saint-Dominique, that an heiress had been offered to me whose immediate fortune is larger than that which Mademoiselle Colleville will eventually inherit.
"Du Bruel always seemed to be attached to Monsieur Rabourdin." Bixiou. "Ha, gentlemen! strange things are going on in your bureau. Du Bruel! Thuillier. "Full speed." Bixiou. "What about Rabourdin?" Fleury. "Distilled, evaporated, melted! Such a man, the king of men, that he " Dutocq. "Where's the little viper who copied it?" Bixiou. "Copied it? How did you know he copied it? Poiret.
"For any one of those three things you shall have our Celeste," said Thuillier. "Ah! what a pearl she is!" exclaimed la Peyrade, raising his eyes to heaven. "I have the weakness to pray to God for her every day. She is charming; she is exactly like you oh! nonsense; surely you needn't caution me! Dutocq told me all. Well, I'll be with you to-night.
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