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Updated: May 15, 2025
I resolved to wash my hands of the whole gang as soon as I had got my money back by fair means or foul. At nine the next morning I received a note from Medini, begging me to call on him and settle the matter. I replied that he must make his arrangements with Goudar, and I begged to be excused calling on him.
Furthermore, I should never have had the strength of mind to enjoy the Charpillon forcibly, especially by means of the wonderful chair, the mechanism of which would have frightened her out of her wits. At dinner I told Goudar that the Charpillon had demanded an interview, and that I had wished to keep the chair so as to shew her that I could have her if I liked.
As we were going away Goudar said that I was conducting the affair admirably, but if I made a single slip I should be undone. I saw the good sense of his advice, and determined to shew that I was as sharp as he. The next day, feeling anxious to hear the result of the council which the mother had doubtless held with the daughters, I called at their house at ten o'clock.
He evidently understood it all; for terror drove the fumes of the wine out of his mind in an instant, and he looked frightened to death. "Ah, you scoundrel!" he howled. And, throwing himself upon Goudar, he plunged his knife twice into him. The movement was so rapid and so sudden, that it had been impossible to prevent it.
But this music delighted him so intensely, that he actually forgot to eat, and, with hanging lip and half-closed eyes, rocked himself to and fro, keeping time with the measure. "They look hideous!" M. Folgat could not keep from whispering. In the meantime Goudar, warned by the preconcerted signal, had finished his song.
I fancied they would be ashamed to see me; but I was very much mistaken, for Goudar came back laughing, and said the mother expressed a hope that I should always be the friend of the family. I ought to have refused to have anything more to do with them, but I had not the strength to play the man. I called at Denmark Street the same evening, and spent an hour without uttering a syllable.
They were sent off; and, as soon as they had left the room, he said to M. Folgat, "I am just from the hospital. I have seen Goudar. He had done it. He had made Cocoleu talk." "And what does he say?" "Well, exactly what I knew he would say, as soon as they could loose his tongue.
They had consulted several counsel, who agreed in saying that a parrot could not be indicted for libel, but that they could make me pay dearly for my jest if they could prove that I had been the bird's instructor. Goudar warned me to be careful of owning to the fact, as two witnesses would suffice to undo me. The facility with which false witnesses may be produced in London is something dreadful.
Then Goudar asked, "Ah! you did not have such good wine to drink at Valpinson?" "Oh, yes!" replied Cocoleu. "But as much as you wanted?" "Yes. Quite enough." And, laughing with some difficulty, he stammered, and stuttered out, "I got got into the cellar through one of the windows; and I drank drank through through a a straw." "You must be sorry you are no longer there?" "Oh, yes!"
Those who know England, and especially London will not need to be informed as to the nature of this accusation, which is so easily brought in England; it will suffice to say that through it Sodom was overwhelmed. "The mother has engaged me to mediate," said Goudar, "and if you will leave her alone, she will do you no harm."
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