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"We did not come here," cried Fromaget, "to say Amen to everything the Messieurs Giguet, father and son, may wish " "No! no!" cried the assembly. "Things are going badly," said Madame Marion to her cook in the garden. "Messieurs," resumed Achille, "I confine myself to asking my friend Simon Giguet, categorically, what he expects to do for our interests." "Yes! yes!" cried the assembly.
"You will send me to the Chamber," went on Simon, "if you do send me, to represent principles, the principles of 1789; to be one of the ciphers, if you choose, of the Opposition, but a cipher that votes with it to enlighten the government, make war against abuses, and promote progress in all things " "What do you call progress?" asked Fromaget.
Poupart, though a most devoted adherent of the Cinq-Cygne family, had been sounded during the last day or two, by Colonel Giguet's valet, with so much cleverness and perseverance that he thought he was doing an ill-turn to the Comte de Gondreville, the enemy of the Cinq-Cygnes, by giving his influence to the election of Simon Giguet; and he was now conversing on that point with the man who accompanied him, an apothecary named Fromaget, who, as he did not furnish his wares to the chateau de Gondreville, desired nothing better than to cabal against the Kellers.
"The devil take me!" thought Beauvisage, "if I am ever caught haranguing again." "Will Messieurs Fromaget and Marcelin accept the functions of inspectors of the ballot?" "It would be more regular," said Achille Pigoult, rising, "if the meeting itself nominated those officers, following, of course, the parliamentary forms of the Chamber."
Consequently, Simon took possession of Poupart, and delivered the apothecary Fromaget to his father, who had just come in to make his bow to the electors.
These nominations were naturally very displeasing to Fromaget, the apothecary, and Marcelin the solicitor. "You enable us," said Achille Pigoult, "to manifest our independence. Therefore you may feel more pride in being rejected than you could have felt in being chosen." Everybody laughed.
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