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Bixiou kept a grave face till he reached the outer door, listening to Gazonal, who tried to enlighten him on his late operation, and to prove to him that if Vauvinet's follower, Cerizet, took another twenty francs out of his four hundred and fifty, he was getting money at forty per cent.
As the usher opened one side of the double door through which none but deputies, ministers, or messengers from the king are allowed to pass, Gazonal saw a man come out who seemed still young, although he was really forty-eight years old, and to whom the usher evidently indicated Leon de Lora. "Ha! you here!" he exclaimed, shaking hands with both Bixiou and Lora.
"What a happy man!" cried Gazonal, heaving the sigh of a provincial. "Good!" thought she. "I shall have new furniture, and get the better of Carabine." "Well, my dear!" said Leon, returning, "you'll be sure to come to Carabine's to-night, won't you? supper and lansquenet." "Will monsieur be there?" said Jenny Cadine, looking artlessly and graciously at Gazonal.
"It would be magnified." "Would our eyes be magnified too?" said Gazonal, looking at his two friends significantly. "Man will return to what he was before he became degenerate; our six-feet men will then be dwarfs." "Is your picture finished?" asked Leon. "Entirely finished," replied Dubourdieu.
"But what do you expect will make the happiness of France?" cried Gazonal. "Equality of citizens and cheapness of provisions. We mean that there will be no persons lacking anything, no millionaires, no suckers of blood and victims." "That's it! maximum and minimum," said Gazonal. "You've said it," replied the corn-cutter, decisively. "No more manufacturers?" asked Gazonal.
"Don't laugh, Gazonal," said Leon as they reached the foot of the staircase, whence his eye could take in the whole of the Place de la Bourse. "I see over there one of our great men, and you shall compare his language with that of the barber, and tell me which of the two you think the most original." "Don't laugh, Gazonal," said Bixiou, mimicking Leon's intonation.
"Well, cousin, you have now seen the police incarnate," said Leon to Gazonal. "It has something the effect of a dinner-pill," said the worthy provincial, while Gaillard and Bixiou were talking together in a low voice. "I'll give you an answer to-night at Carabine's," said Gaillard aloud, re-seating himself at his desk without seeing or bowing to Gazonal.
The pupils of those eyes had brightened, through them rushed a ray, was it from the depths of the future or from hell? Gazonal asked, interrupting the old creature, of what use the toad and the hen were to her. "They predict the future. The consulter himself throws grain upon the cards; Bilouche comes and pecks it.
I would not give myself that trouble for a prince; but you are more; you are an artist, and you understand me." "This is one of our greatest inventors," said Bixiou presenting Gazonal. "He might be as great as Jacquart if he would only let himself die.
"The man is colossal," said Gazonal, as they left the shop; "but I assure you that all your originals so far have a touch of the Southerner about them." "Let us go this way," said Bixiou pointing to the rue Saint-Marc. "Do you want to show me something else?"
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