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"Yes," said la Peyrade, "perhaps I will; but, first of all, I want you to find out for me about this Comtesse de Godollo." "What do you care about her? She is nothing but a supernumerary, that countess." "I have my reasons," said la Peyrade; "you can certainly get some information about her in three days; I'll come and see you then."
Cerizet, to whom these indignities were reported by Dutocq, would gladly have served them up hot to la Peyrade; but the interview in which the copying clerk was to furnish information about Madame de Godollo did not take place at the time fixed.
I pass over to the enemy; and with that enemy I am ready and desirous to have, whenever he pleases, a frank and honest explanation." The next day Theodose felt himself possessed by two curiosities: How would Celeste behave as to the option she had accepted? and this Comtesse Torna de Godollo, what did she mean by what she had said; and what did she want with him?
Zelie, my wife, heard it from Josephine, who wanted, lately, to enter our service; the matter came to nothing, for Francoise, our woman, who thought of marrying, changed her mind. You must know, fair lady, that it was solely Madame de Godollo who brought about the emigration of the Thuilliers, whose upholsterer, as one might say, she is."
After this sudden departure, which stupefied everybody, la Peyrade approached Madame de Godollo very respectfully, and said to her: "You must admit, madame, that it is difficult to drag a man from the water when he persists in being drowned." "I had no idea until this moment of such utter simplicity," replied the countess; "it is too silly.
His first mistake was in yielding to the barren pleasure of disappointing Cerizet in the lease of the house. If Brigitte by his advice and urging had not taken the administration of the property into her own hands there was every probability that she would never have made the acquaintance of Madame de Godollo.
"But, my dearest," said Madame de Godollo, "do you think that our meeting here this evening to sing ballads and eat ices and say evil of our neighbor which is the customary habit of salons is more pleasing to God than to see a man of science in his observatory busied in studying the magnificent secrets of His creation?"
But you have not chosen to restrain yourself with the limits of social politeness, of which you have a model beside you in Madame de Godollo, who, I am persuaded, although she is not at all friendly to me, would never have approved of your odious behavior. Thank Heaven!
In any case, this view, which isn't yours, appears to have been that of Madame de Godollo, for, they tell me, her apartment is very coquettishly furnished; and to coax Mademoiselle Brigitte into the same path of elegance she made a proposal to her as follows: 'A friend of mine, she said, 'a Russian princess for whom one of the first upholsterers has just made splendid furniture, is suddenly recalled to Russia by the czar, a gentleman with whom no one dares to trifle.
Madame Colleville followed him; and, under the influence of the feeling of jealousy she had just shown, she became a savage mother. "Celeste," she said, "why don't you sing? These gentlemen wish to hear you." "Oh, mamma!" cried the girl, "how can I sing after Madame de Godollo, with my poor thread of a voice? Besides, you know I have a cold."
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