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And Irma, left to her own devices once more, went up to two of her friends, young Bourse men who were among the most persistent scoffers, but whom she began to indoctrinate, forcing them, as it were, into admiration, by rapping them on the knuckles. Fagerolles, however, had not opened his lips. He kept on examining the picture, and glancing at the crowd.
It was shameful that art should be dependent upon a Minister's idiotic good pleasure! Fagerolles, at that official dinner he had gone to, was no doubt conscientiously licking the boots of some chief clerk, some idiot who was only fit to be made a guy of. 'Well, said Jory, 'he effects his purpose, and he's quite right. You won't pay his debts. 'Debts?
Fagerolles, however, was already paying for the two chartreuses he had ordered, and at last he went off with Irma, whom Jory also decided to follow. Claude watched them walk away together, she between the two men, moving on in regal fashion, greatly admired, and repeatedly bowed to by people in the crowd. 'One can see very well that Mathilde isn't here, quietly remarked Sandoz.
Then, for a couple of weeks he lived in a state of anxiety. A dozen times he had the idea of going to Fagerolles' for information, but a feeling of shame restrained him. Besides, as the committee proceeded in alphabetical order, nothing perhaps was yet decided.
'It was painted thirty years ago, and nothing more substantial has been turned out since. Why is it left at the Luxembourg? It ought to be in the Louvre. 'But Courajod isn't dead, said Fagerolles. 'What! Courajod isn't dead! No one ever sees him or speaks of him now.
And the girl having brought the toast, she distributed two slices to each of them, and was beginning to ladle the bouillabaisse into the plates, when the door opened once more. 'Fagerolles at last! she said. 'I have given your seat to Mahoudeau. Sit down there, next to Claude. He apologised with an air of courtly politeness, by alleging a business appointment.
Jory, without getting in the least angry, tilted back his chair and sucked his cigar, merely saying with a sneer: 'Oh! if you see Fagerolles now 'Well, what of it? she cried, becoming furious. 'It's no business of yours. I snap my fingers at your Fagerolles, do you hear? He knows very well that people don't quarrel with me.
But the band hated all elbowing and public exhibition, so they jostled the other people in order to go inside, where all was deserted and cool. 'Hallo, there's Fagerolles by himself, exclaimed Claude.
Three or four more remained to be organised, and nobody else offered assistance; in fact, every one turned away in fear of the crushing labour which would rivet the more zealous people to the spot far into the night. It precisely happened that Fagerolles, who had been in the thick of it since the morning, was gesticulating and shouting, trying to make himself heard above the hubbub.
Since the discussion on Fagerolles there had been intervals of silence, a kind of bored irritation, which fell heavily upon them amidst the dense tobacco smoke. And, in fact, Gagniere felt so out of sorts that he left the table for a moment to seat himself at the piano, murdering some passages from Wagner in a subdued key, with the stiff fingers of an amateur who tries his first scale at thirty.
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