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"Not so fast but what his marriage," said Cerizet, "is at the present moment a very doubtful thing." "Doubtful!" cried Dutocq; "why doubtful?" "Well, I am commissioned to propose to him another wife, and I'm not sure that any choice is left to him." "What the devil are you about, my dear fellow, lending your hand in this way to another marriage when you know we have a mortgage on the first?"
That's in your role. Do you want any money?" added Cerizet, pulling a hundred francs out of his trousers' pocket. "There it is; it won't look amiss." And he laid the pile on the chimney-piece. "And now," said Dutocq, "we had better get out through the bedroom." "Well, good-bye," said Theodose, opening a hidden door which communicated from the study to the bedroom.
Ah! that wretch of a Dutocq; it was he who stole the paper." His tears and sobs recommenced and made so much noise that Rabourdin came up to see what was the matter. He found the young fellow almost fainting in the arms of Poiret and Phellion. Rabourdin. "What is the matter, gentlemen?" That memorandum, Dutocq, the monster, he must have taken it." Phellion.
"What has happened?" Dutocq. "Do you remember what I said to you about that caricature?" Bixiou. "Yes, what then?" Dutocq. "Make it, and you shall be under-head-clerk with a famous fee. The fact is, my dear fellow, there's dissension among the powers that be. The minister is pledged to Rabourdin, but if he doesn't appoint Baudoyer he offends the priests and their party.
When the young substitute rode boldly into this bog-hole, the Provencal, who had slyly enticed him there, exchanged, without being observed, a wink with Dutocq, who was just then waiting for the place of a player at bouillotte.
This opinion, we may remark, is a standing axiom among the bourgeoisie. "Well, for my part," said Madame Minard, "I prefer the dignified old ways." "We didn't mean that for you, madame; your salon is the chosen haunt of pleasure," said Dutocq. When "La Boulangere" came to an end, Theodose pulled Dutocq from the sideboard where he was preparing to eat a slice of tongue, and said to him:
In a word, a sufficiently large number of electors in your arrondissement have cast their eyes upon you, and wish to honor you with their confidence by making you the representative of this arrondissement in the municipal council of Paris; which, as everybody knows, is the Council-general of the Seine." "Bravo!" cried Dutocq. Phellion rose.
"Why?" asked Theodose, feeling his spinal column liquidizing as if the discharge of some inward electric fluid had melted it. "The house is ours." "How?" "Claparon has bit it in under the name of one of his creditors, a little toad named Sauvaignou. Desroches, the lawyer, has taken the case, and you'll get a notice to-morrow. This affair will oblige Claparon, Dutocq, and me to raise funds.
What will the ministry be without you? Will nobody take up the bet on my side?" Dutocq. "I can't, for I know the facts. Monsieur Rabourdin is appointed.
You see, my friend, what it is to try and manage affairs alone; complications come, and there's no one to smooth the angles. If you had got me that lease, I should have had a footing at the Thuilliers', Dutocq would not have abandoned you, and together we could have brought you gently into port." "But suppose I don't want to re-enter that port?" said la Peyrade, with some sharpness.
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