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Updated: May 18, 2025
Cardot, the notary, had produced his aspirant for Celeste's hand in the person of Monsieur Godeschal, attorney and successor to Derville; an able man, thirty-six years of age, who had paid one hundred thousand francs for his practice, which the two hundred thousand of the "dot" would doubly clear off.
On his return from his classes, where he was kept but a short time, he went to his work in the office; occasionally he was sent to the Palais, but always under the thumb of the rigid Godeschal, till dinner. The dinner was that of his master, one dish of meat, one of vegetables, and a salad. The dessert consisted of a piece of Gruyere cheese.
"I say, Boucard, there is going to be a queer scene in the chief's room! There is a woman who can spend her days alternately, the odd with Comte Ferraud, and the even with Comte Chabert." "And in leap year," said Godeschal, "they must settle the count between them." "Silence, gentlemen, you can be heard!" said Boucard severely.
"Poor unhappy boy! what grief he has caused me!" said Godeschal, "that tall ne'er-do-well of a Georges Marest is his evil genius; he ought to flee him like the plague; if not, he'll bring him to some third disgrace." "What do you mean by that?" asked Desroches. Godeschal then related briefly the affair of the journey to Presles.
"But on that principle you would pay your bet by taking us to see the water run under the Pont Neuf!" cried Simonnin, interrupting him. "To be seen for money," Godeschal added. "But a great many things are to be seen for money that are not plays. The definition is defective," said Desroches. "But do listen to me!" "You are talking nonsense, my dear boy," said Boucard.
He was not allowed to leave a single section of the Code until he had thoroughly mastered it to the satisfaction of his chief and Godeschal, who put him through preliminary examinations more searching and longer than those of the law-school.
"There is something behind all this," said Desroches in an undertone to Godeschal, as la Peyrade followed Sauvaignou into the clerk's office. "The Thuilliers get a splendid piece of property for next to nothing," replied Godeschal; "that's all." "La Peyrade and Cerizet look to me like two divers who are fighting under water," replied Desroches.
At five in the morning, in all weathers, Godeschal woke up. He went down with Oscar to the office, where they always found their master up and working.
The first thing he did was to take Godeschal, Mariette's brother, as his head-clerk." "At Paris," said Blondet, "there are attorneys of two shades. There is the honest man attorney; he abides within the province of the law, pushes on his cases, neglects no one, never runs after business, gives his clients his honest opinion, and makes them compromise on doubtful points he is a Derville, in short.
"How is he getting on?" asked the land-agent of Godeschal on his return from one of his journeys which had kept him some months out of Paris. "Always too much vanity," replied Godeschal. "You give him fine clothes and fine linen, he wears the shirt-fronts of a stockbroker, and so my dainty coxcomb spends his Sundays in the Tuileries, looking out for adventures. What else can you expect?
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