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Madame la Comtesse de Godollo, to whom I read a few pages last night, told me that the pamphlet was likely to get me into trouble with the authorities; but I wouldn't allow what she said to have any influence upon me." "Well," said la Peyrade, "I think that the oracle of the family sees the matter clearly; and I've no desire to bring your head to the scaffold."
"My dear friends," he said, "I have come to make a little revelation which will greatly surprise you, and will, I think, prove a lesson to all of us when a question arises as to receiving foreigners in our homes." "What is it?" cried Brigitte, with curiosity. "That Hungarian woman you were so delighted with, that Madame Torna, Comtesse de Godollo " "Well?" exclaimed the old maid.
I really felt as if I were the guest of Madame what is her name? I never can remember it." "Torna, Comtesse de Godollo," said Phellion, intervening. "The name is euphonious enough to remember." "Euphonious if you like, my dear; but to me it never seems a name at all." "It is a Magyar, or to speak more commonly, a Hungarian name.
"There's a time for all things," said Celeste; "and, as Monsieur de la Peyrade says, God Himself did not disdain to rest." "But, my love," said Madame de Godollo, "God has time to do so; He is eternal." "That," said la Peyrade, "is one of the wittiest impieties ever uttered; those are the reasons that the world's people put forth.
"I did not mean that Madame de Godollo is actually in the furniture business; but, at the time when Mademoiselle Thuillier decided, by la Peyrade's advice, to manage the new house herself, that little fellow, who hasn't all the ascendancy over her mind he thinks he has, couldn't persuade her to move the family into the splendid apartment where they received us yesterday.
Nothing is fixed and absolute in our manner of proceeding; we act in accordance with the time and circumstances. I wanted an ear and an influence in the Thuillier household; accordingly, I let loose the Godollo upon it, and she, in turn, partly to assist herself, installed there one of our men, an intelligent fellow, as you will see for yourself.
Her "Styrian Maiden" belongs to the Austrian Emperor, and is in Gödöllö castle. Her portraits are seen at many exhibitions, and art critics mention her with respect. <b>LEMAIRE, MME. JEANNE-MADELEINE.</b> Honorable mention, 1877; silver medal, Paris Exposition, 1900. Born at Sainte Rosseline. Pupil of an aunt, who was a miniaturist, and later of Chaplin.
"Madame de Godollo," replied Thuillier, "is not at all what you suppose her to be, and the best thing this house can do is never to say one word about her, either good or evil. As for la Peyrade, as this is not the first time he has been requested to go and see Monsieur du Portail, I am surprised that he hesitates to do so."
"Science," said la Peyrade, "is a fine thing, but it has, unfortunately, the attribute of making bears and monomaniacs." "Not to mention," said Celeste, "that it destroys all religious sentiments." "You are mistaken there, my dear child," said Madame de Godollo.
"Certainly," he said to himself as he walked away, "I'm in a run of ill-luck; and I don't know where it will end." In Brigitte's nature there was such an all-devouring instinct of domination, that it was without regret, and, we may even say, with a sort of secret joy that she saw the disappearance of Madame de Godollo.
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