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It is all the more useless to relate the conversation which took place between the three confederates at the "Cheval Rouge," because the arrangements there concluded were the basis of certain confidences made, as we shall see, by Theodose to Mademoiselle Thuillier; but it is necessary to remark that the cleverness displayed by la Peyrade seemed almost alarming to Cerizet and Dutocq.
His whole external appearance and behavior was that of a slave who has burst his chain and has promised himself not to make a gospel use of his liberty. As he conducted his visitor to the door, the latter came face to face with a woman in servant's dress, who was just about to ring the bell. This woman was, apparently, known to Dutocq, for he said to her:
But stay, I am wrong to call it a proposal; I should say contract. A wager constitutes a contract." Fleury. "No, no; you can only apply the word 'contract' to agreements that are recognized in the Code. Now the Code allows of no action for the recovery of a bet." Dutocq. "Proscribe a thing and you recognize it." Bixiou. "Good! my little man." Poiret. "Dear me!" Fleury.
Hey, Minard, if you should get twenty-five hundred francs a-year your little wife would be uncommonly pleased, and you could buy yourself a pair of boots now and then." Colleville. "But you don't get twenty-five hundred francs." Bixiou. "Monsieur Dutocq gets that in Rabourdin's office; why shouldn't I get it this year? Monsieur Baudoyer gets it." Colleville.
"Well, Monday, so be it!" said Theodose; "are we friends?" "We shall be Monday," responded Cerizet. "Well, then, Monday you'll pay for my dinner," said Theodose, laughing. "Yes, at the Rocher de Cancale, if I have the lease. Dutocq shall be there we'll all be there ah! it is long since I've had a good laugh." Theodose and Cerizet shook hands, saying, reciprocally: "We'll meet soon."
But you will have to settle with Dutocq for the remaining four notes. You got the better of me, and I know Dutocq hasn't the force to stand against you." "I'll agree to that, provided you'll pay a rent of forty-eight thousand francs for the house, the last year in advance, and begin the lease in October."
On reaching the rue des Poules through the rue des Postes, Theodose and Dutocq saw a great assemblage of men and women, and by the light which the wine-merchant's little oil-lamps cast upon these groups, they were horrified at beholding that mass of red, seamed, haggard faces; solemn with suffering, withered, distorted, swollen with wine, pallid from liquor; some threatening, others resigned, some sarcastic or jeering, others besotted; all rising from the midst of those terrible rags, which no designer can surpass in his most extravagant caricatures.
He crossed the first room, in which were a crowd of persons whom civil suits of one kind or another summoned before the magistrate. Without pausing in that waiting-room, la Peyrade pushed on to the office adjoining that of Dutocq. There he found Cerizet at a shabby desk of blackened wood, at which another clerk, then absent, occupied the opposite seat.
"Now, I've said my say, gentlemen," he continued, sending out his voice through his nasal holes, and taking a dramatic attitude; for once, at a moment of extreme penury, he had gone upon the stage. As he finished making his proposition some one rang at the outer door, and la Peyrade rose to go and open it. As soon as his back was turned, Cerizet said, hastily, to Dutocq: "Are you sure of him?
But Cerizet and Dutocq held it undermined by a mass of powder, with the match ever lighted; but the wind might extinguish the match or the devil might flood the mine. The moment when wild beasts seize their food is always the most critical, and that moment had now arrived for these three hungry tigers.
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