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Won't monsieur go up? She is at home; and so is Monsieur Thuillier." "No, never mind," said la Peyrade, "I only came to tell Madame de Godollo about a commission she asked me to execute; I haven't time to stop now." "Well, as I told you, she left with post-horses this morning.
Before leaving the door finally, and as if some doubt still remained in his mind, la Peyrade made a last and most thundering assault upon it. "Who's knocking like that, as if they'd bring the house down?" said the porter, attracted by the noise to the foot of the staircase. "Doesn't Madame de Godollo still live here?" asked la Peyrade. "Of course she doesn't live here now; she has moved away.
"His father talked to him very decidedly; but to-night there happens to be a conjunction of I don't know what planets; it is a great night at the Observatory, and he did not feel willing to dispense with " "It is inconceivable that a man should be so foolish!" exclaimed Madame de Godollo; "wasn't theology bad enough, that he must needs bring in astronomy too?"
"Perhaps I do," replied the countess, with another smile. "May I dare to utter a suspicion, madame?" said la Peyrade, with some agitation. "Yes, say what you think," replied Madame de Godollo. "I shall not blame you if you guess right." "Well, madame, our enemies, Thuillier's and mine, are a woman."
"Yes, Pere Anselme," said la Peyrade, "a great mathematician who does not despair of converting you. Mademoiselle Celeste wept for joy." Felix looked around him with a bewildered air. Madame de Godollo fixed upon him a pair of eyes the language of which a poodle could have understood.
I do not know you, and I may add that the place where I once saw you did not create an unconquerable desire in me to make your acquaintance." "Where have you seen me?" asked du Portail. "In the apartment of a strumpet who called herself Madame de Godollo." "Where monsieur, consequently, went himself," said the little old man, "and for a purpose much less disinterested than mine."
"He seems to keep aloof from our strictures, the dear husband!" cried Minard; "but just see how he goes beyond them!" "I!" said Phellion; "it is neither my intention nor my habit to do so." "All the same it would be difficult to say more neatly that the Thuilliers are geese, and that Madame de Godollo is bringing them up by hand."
The hesitation that preceded that last word seemed to convey in place of it a proper name; and la Peyrade understood that Madame de Godollo, out of pure clemency, had suppressed that of Thuillier, had turned her remark upon the species and not the individual. "I agree, madame, that your distinction is a just one," he replied, "but in this case Apollo has no choice."
"Dear me! do you frequent such women?" said Brigitte, resuming the offensive. "That's a pretty thing! what would Zelie say if she knew it?" "In the discharge of my duties," said Minard, stiffly, provoked at this reception of his news, "I have seen your friend, Madame de Godollo, in company with others of her class." "How do you know it was she if you only saw her?" demanded Brigitte.
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