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Updated: May 4, 2025
"Concern yourself with the superior kitten, madame, and I concern myself with the inferior eggs!" To which Alexandrine made no reply. After Flique had taken his departure, she remained speechless for five consecutive minutes for the first time in the whole of her waking existence, gazing at the spot at her feet where sprawled the white angora, surrounded by her mottled offspring.
One does not sell inferior eggs in Paris without hearing of it sooner or later. I know more than I have told, but not more than I can tell, if I choose." "Our ancient friendship" faltered Alexandrine, touched in a vulnerable spot. " preserves you thus far," added Flique, no less unmoved. "Beware how you abuse it!" And so the calls of Zut were no longer disturbed.
My wife has told me of you and of your sayings. Beware! or I shall arrange your affair for you! Go! you and your cat!" And, by way of emphasis, he fairly kicked Zut into her astonished owner's arms. He was magnificent, was Hippolyte! This anecdote, duly elaborated, was poured into the ears of Abel Flique an hour later, and that evening he paid his first visit in many months to Madame Caille.
As we have long desired a white angora, we keep this one as a souvenir of you. We regret that we do not see the means of accepting the kind offer you were so amiable as to make us. We fear that we shall not find time to shampoo your cat, as we shall be so busy taking care of our own. Monsieur Flique will explain the rest.
A stout chauffeur, in a leather suit, thickly coated with dust, was undergoing a shampoo at the hands of one of the duck-clad, and, under the skilfully plied razor of the other, the virgin down slid from the lips and chin of a slim and somewhat startled youth, while from a vaporizer Hippolyte played a fine spray of perfumed water upon the ruddy countenance of Abel Flique.
But even if she had been able to ignore the significance of that furious outburst at her very door, its meaning had not been lost upon the others, and her own half-formed conviction was speedily confirmed. "What has she?" cried Hippolyte, pausing in the final stage of his operations upon the highly perfumed Flique. "Do I know?" replied his wife with a shrug. "She thinks I stole her cat I!"
But, with the deterioration in his old friends' wares, and the almost simultaneous appearance of the Salon Malakoff, his loyalty wavered. Flique sampled the advantages of Hippolyte's establishment, and, being won over thereby, returned again and again.
We pray you to accept, madame, the assurance of our distinguished consideration, It was Abel Flique who conveyed the above epistle, and Zut, and four of Zut's kittens, to Alexandrine Caille, and, when that wrathful person would have rent him with tooth and nail, it was Abel Flique who laid his finger on his lip, and said,
Flique, his ruddy face screwed into a mere knot of features, as Hippolyte worked violet hair-tonic into his brittle locks, was moved to satire by the apparition. "Tiens! It is with the cat as with the clients. All the world forsakes the Caille."
Moreover, her visit had never been returned, and this again was fuel for her rage. But the sharpest thorn in her flesh and even in that of her phlegmatic husband was the base desertion to the enemy's camp of Abel Flique.
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