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Still, you will always learn if you can rely on me. At first, Claude inwardly swore that he would not trouble about it. Fagerolles' protection weighed heavily upon him; and yet, in his heart of hearts, he really had but one fear, that the shifty fellow would not keep his promise, but would ultimately be taken with a fit of cowardice at the idea of protecting a defeated man.
'I'm going to take you with me, continued Fagerolles; you must come and see how I'm settled in my little house, in which you haven't yet set foot, in spite of all your promises. It's there, hard by, at the corner of the Avenue de Villiers. Claude, whose arm he had gaily taken, was obliged to follow him.
'Suppose she lays a place for Dubuche, while she is about it, said Claude. 'He told me he would perhaps come. But they were all down upon Dubuche, who frequented women in society. Jory said that he had seen him in a carriage with an old lady and her daughter, whose parasols he was holding on his knees. 'Where have you come from to be so late? asked Fagerolles of Gagniere.
Things rarely came to such a pass as this. They almost always arranged matters. But in the depths of their ravaged pride there were wounds which always bled; they secretly waged duels which tortured them with agony, despite the smile upon their lips. Bongrand and Fagerolles alone raised their hands, and 'The Dead Child, being rejected, could only perhaps be rescued at the general revision.
Claude had put on his hat again. Fagerolles was shuffling about impatiently, looking nervously at the house over the way. 'I don't send you off, but you see she's waiting for me, he said, 'Well, it's understood, your affair's settled that is, unless I'm not elected. Come to the Palais de l'Industrie on the evening the voting-papers are counted. Oh! there will be a regular crush, quite a rumpus!
But when Fagerolles had told him that she had gone off in the crowd with two gentlemen, he recovered his composure, and followed the others, lighter of heart now that he was relieved of that girl who had bewildered him. People now only moved about with difficulty.
'Well, let's proceed then, said Fagerolles; and, addressing Gagniere, he asked, 'Do you know where they have put Claude's picture? 'I? no, I was looking for it I am going with you.
Fagerolles related a story about Daddy Malgras and a female cousin by marriage, whom the dealer offered as a model on conditions that he was given a presentment of her in oils. Then they began to talk of models. Mahoudeau waxed furious, because the really well-built female models were disappearing. It was impossible to find one with a decent figure now.
Then he approached the large window, and abruptly opened one of the casements; and on one of the balconies of the house over the way a woman clad in a lace dressing-gown could be distinguished waving her handkerchief. Fagerolles on his side waved his hand three times in succession. Then both windows were closed again.
They all sat down and ordered beer, after which the painter resumed: 'Do you know that I went to look for you at your father's; and a nice reception he gave me. Fagerolles, who affected a low devil-may-care style, slapped his thighs. 'Oh, the old fellow plagues me! I hooked it this morning, after a row. He wants me to draw some things for his beastly zinc stuff.
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