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Schmucke had taken Pons' hand again, and held it joyously in his own. Pons was almost well again, he thought. "Let us go, Monsieur l'Abbe," said the doctor. "I will send Mme. Cantinet round at once. I see how it is. She perhaps may not find M. Pons alive." While the Abbe Duplanty was persuading Pons to engage Mme. Cantinet as his nurse, Fraisier had sent for her.
But in the middle of the reading a clerk came into the private office to speak to his employer. "There is a man here, sir, who wishes to speak to M. Schmucke," said he. The notary looked at Fraisier, and, taking his cue from him, shrugged his shoulders. "Never disturb us when we are signing documents. Just ask his name is it a man or a gentleman? Is he a creditor?" The clerk went and returned.
"Why, madame," Fraisier broke in, "in my opinion you can be so sure that the inheritance is yours that I will offer to act the part of purchaser for you. I will undertake that you shall have the land at the best possible price, and have a written engagement made out under private seal, like a contract to deliver goods. . . . I will go to the Englishman in the character of buyer.
La Cibot was the hinge upon which the whole matter turned; and for this reason, any rebellion on the part of the instrument must be at once put down; such action on her part was quite unexpected; but Fraisier had put forth all the strength of his rancorous nature, and the audacious portress lay trampled under his feet. "Come, reassure yourself, my dear madame," he remarked, holding out his hand.
He is worse than an eldest son. He will invent a bill or two next! We must cut this short. This Fraisier cannot take large views. What debt is this, my good man? Speak out." "He is off his head," Gaudissart said to himself. And a sudden pang of pity for this poor innocent before him brought a tear to the manager's eyes. "Ah! you understand, mennesir le directeur! Ver' goot.
Fraisier told Villemot, "and I did not think it necessary to tear him away from business; he would have come too late, in any case. He is the next-of-kin; but as he has been disinherited, and M. Schmucke gets everything, I thought that if his legal representative were present it would be enough." Topinard lent an ear to this.
M. Leboeuf, President of the Tribunal, is acquainted with M. de Marville, and can answer inquiries about me " The Presidente's shrug was so ruthlessly significant, that Fraisier was compelled to make short work of his parenthetic discourse. "So distinguished a woman will at once understand why I speak of myself in the first place. It is the shortest way to the property."
"Now for this room," said Fraisier, pointing to Schmucke's bedroom, which opened into the dining-room. "But that is M. Schmucke's own room," remonstrated La Sauvage, springing in front of the door. "We found the lease among the papers," Fraisier said ruthlessly; "there was no mention of M. Schmucke in it; it is taken out in M. Pons' name only.
I must see the property and have some talk with this Jew of whom you speak; and then, let me direct you " "We shall see, M. Fraisier." "What is this? 'We shall see?" repeated Fraisier, speaking in the voice natural to him, as he gave La Cibot a viperous glance. "Am I your legal adviser or am I not, I say? Let us know exactly where we stand." La Cibot felt that he read her thoughts.
"We shall have two pall-bearers at any rate you and he." And, happy to find two of the places filled up, he took out some wonderful white buckskin gloves, and politely presented Fraisier and Villemot with a pair apiece. "If you gentlemen will be so good as to act as pall-bearers " said he.
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