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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Yes, yes, I see; very good!" said Franchessini; "husband made deputy satisfied shut his mouth." "You are all wrong, my dear fellow; the pair have an only daughter, a spoilt child, nineteen years old, very agreeable face, and something like a million in her pocket." "But, my dear Maxime, I passed your tailor's house last night, and it was not illuminated." "No; that would have been premature.
Colonel Franchessini, so well known for his ardor in punishing the refractories of the National Guard, has been elected almost unanimously in one of the rotten boroughs of the civil list. It is supposed that he will take his seat beside the phalanx of other henchmen, and show himself in the Chamber, as he has elsewhere, one of the firmest supporters of the policy of the present order of things.
He therefore took leave, putting into his manner a certain coldness which the colonel appeared not to notice. No sooner had Monsieur de Trailles departed than Franchessini opened a pack of cards and took out the knave of spades. This he cut up in a curious manner, leaving the figure untouched. Placing this species of hieroglyphic between two sheets of paper, he consigned it to an envelope.
But, at any rate, it had obtained that merely numerical success which parties seek at any price to prolong their power. The Te Deum was sung in all its camps, a paean which serves as well to celebrate victorious defeats as honest victories. On the evening of the day when Colonel Franchessini received the visit from Maxime de Trailles, the general result of the elections was made known.
Approaching the fifties, like his friend de Trailles, Colonel Franchessini had still some pretensions to the after-glow of youth, which his slim figure and agile military bearing seemed likely to preserve to him for some time longer.
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