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"If you are interested in newspapers," said Gaudissart, changing his attack, "we are sure to understand each other." "Yes; but before we say anything about that, tell me what you think of this wine." "Delicious!" "Then let us finish the bottle." The lunatic poured out a thimbleful for himself and filled Gaudissart's glass.
Beneath all Gaudissart's vanity, beneath the fierce desire to succeed in life at all costs, to rise to the social level of his old friend Popinot, there lay a warm heart and a kindly nature. Wherefore he canceled his too hasty judgments and went over to Schmucke's side. "You shall have it all! But I will do better still, my dear Schmucke. Topinard is a good sort " "Yes.
From this bare outline, it may be imagined that the Topinards, to use the hackneyed formula, were "poor but honest." Topinard himself was verging on forty; Mme. Topinard, once leader of a chorus mistress, too, it was said, of Gaudissart's predecessor, was certainly thirty years old.
The members of every family, the head-mistress of every boarding-school, were treated to a variation upon the theme of Pons' illness. A single scene, which took place in the Illustrious Gaudissart's private room, will give a sufficient idea of the rest. La Cibot met with unheard-of difficulties, but she succeeded in penetrating at last to the presence.
Oh, I have transports of pride every Saturday! In short, I like M. Gaudissart's gold pieces as much as Lord Byron, your double, liked Mr. Murray's. "'This is not becoming in a woman, said I. "'Pooh! Am I a woman? I am a boy gifted with a soft soul, that is all; a boy whom no woman can torture "'Your life is the negation of your whole being, I replied. 'What?
Let us come to the facts. And remember that you will want at least two thousand francs before long for the doctor, and the nurse, and the medicine, and the nurse's board. That was why I borrowed a thousand francs of M. Pillerault," and with that she held up Gaudissart's bank-note.
At Gaudissart's shout, his pale-blue eyes sparkled, his big head, hollowed like that of a Kalmuc Tartar, bobbed from right to left, and he bowed to Popinot with a queer manner, which meant neither servility nor respect, but was rather that of a man who feels he is not in his right place and will make no concessions.
The members of every family, the head-mistress of every boarding-school, were treated to a variation upon the theme of Pons' illness. A single scene, which took place in the Illustrious Gaudissart's private room, will give a sufficient idea of the rest. La Cibot met with unheard-of difficulties, but she succeeded in penetrating at last to the presence.
"If you are interested in newspapers," said Gaudissart, changing his attack, "we are sure to understand each other." "Yes; but before we say anything about that, tell me what you think of this wine." "Delicious!" "Then let us finish the bottle." The lunatic poured out a thimbleful for himself and filled Gaudissart's glass.
"I am their housekeeper, sir, and do many things for my gentlemen " She did not finish her speech, for in the middle of Gaudissart's roar of laughter a woman's voice exclaimed, "If you are laughing, old man, one may come in," and the leading lady of the ballet rushed into the room and flung herself upon the only sofa.
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