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What was there in common between these names and that of the duchess? And the Dujarrier, that Dujarrier whose manner of living was known to the Castilian, how had she become associated with Marianne's life? Ah! since he had commenced, this Gochard would make an end of it. He would tell everything! Even if he did not wish it, he would speak now.
She was quite pale as she looked over Sulpice's shoulder and saw him rapidly write several lines on the paper, then she spelled: "Adolphe Gochard Go-go-ch-a-r-d."
Marianne's gray eyes never leave him But she in her turn meets her master and Marianne's master is Adolphe Gochard, a horrid Parisian blackguard who is so much her master that, after all, the real hero of the romance is Adolphe Gochard. Such is the secret philosophy of this brilliant and ingenious romance. "I have, however, a little quarrel on my own account with Monsieur Jules Claretie.
"Be off!" cried Marianne. "Why?" asked the duke severely, and astonished. "Because madame prefers that I should only tell you what I have to say to you," said Gochard. "Ah! you claimed that I wanted to extort blackmail. I, an old brigadier, extort blackmail? Well, so let it be! Let us sing our little song!"
Never had Vaudrey, whom she saw that evening at Rue Prony, seemed so provincial, or, as she said, so Sulpice. Besides, he was gloomy and unable to express himself clearly at first, but finally he brought himself to acknowledge that he was embarrassed about providing for the bill of exchange she understood "No, I do not know!" "The bill of exchange in favor of Monsieur Gochard!" "Ah! that is so.
"Ah! if you think that I am afraid of speaking," said Gochard, "you will soon see!"
She pretended to put away the green, sharkskin penholder lying near the inkstand, but drew it imperceptibly nearer to Sulpice, who with a quick movement had already seated himself in front of the secrétaire. "A minister's signature is sufficient, I suppose?" he said with a smile. He commenced to write. "What did you say? Gochard?
It seemed that Marianne was expecting this word money, coarse but eloquent, in order to tell Vaudrey that an old friend, Claire Dujarrier, was on intimate terms with a certain Adolphe Gochard, who upon the endorsement of a responsible person, would certainly advance a hundred thousand francs that he had at this moment lying idle.
Claire Dujarrier advanced the hundred thousand francs demanded by Mademoiselle Kayser, and which she had apparently in reality she took them from her own funds borrowed from Adolphe Gochard, her lover, who had not a sou, and in whose favor Vaudrey signed in regular legal form, a bill of exchange at three months' date value received in cash.
She was quite pale as she looked over Sulpice's shoulder and saw him rapidly write several lines on the paper, then she spelled: "Adolphe Gochard Go-go-c-h-ar-d." "There it is!" he said, as he handed her the sheet of paper. "I wish to know what is thereon, or I would never consent." She took the paper between her fingers as if to tear it to pieces. Sulpice prevented her.
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